毛布

毛布

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	to declare; to announce; to spread to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known; spread; (cotton) cloth
simp. and trad. (毛布)		毛	布

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máobù

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ bou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máobù
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máobù
    • Wade–Giles: mao²-pu⁴
    • Yale: máu-bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maubuh
    • Palladius: маобу (maobu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ bou³
    • Yale: mòuh bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ pou̯³³/

Noun

毛布

1. coarse cotton cloth

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
毛	布
もう Grade: 2	ふ Grade: 5
goon

Etymology

Probably an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 毛布 (literally “hair + cloth”), using the expected Japanese readings of the characters. First cited to a text from 1867 with the sense wool fabric.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) も​ーふ [móꜜòfù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [mo̞ːɸɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

毛(もう)布(ふ) • (mōfu) 

1. [from 1867] wool fabric

   Synonym: 毛織物 (keorimono)

2. [from 1898] a blanket

   Synonyms: ブランケット (buranketto), ケット (ketto)

References

1. “毛布”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN