眊

眊

眊 U+770A, 眊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-770A ← 眉 [U+7709] CJK Unified Ideographs 看 → [U+770B]

Translingual

Han character

眊 (radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹手山 (BUHQU), four-corner 6201₄, composition ⿰目毛)

1. be blurred in eyesight
2. dull and mixed-up

References

• KangXi: page 803, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23194
• Dae Jaweon: page 1219, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2475, character 1
• Unihan data for U+770A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		眊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毛) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
毛	*maːw, *maːws
髦	*maːw
旄	*maːw, *maːws
芼	*maːw, *maːws
氂	*rɯ, *maːw
枆	*maːw
酕	*maːw
牦	*maːw
耄	*maːws
覒	*maːws
眊	*maːws, *mraːwɢ
耗	*hmaːws
秏	*hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
毣	*mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): mō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
    • Wade–Giles: mei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mèi
    • IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mō͘
    • Tâi-lô: mōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɑu^H/, /mˠʌk̚/▼

Rime
Character	眊	眊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	莫報切	莫角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɑuH/	/mˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mɑuH/	/mᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mɑuH/	/mɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mawH/	/maɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/mɑuH/	/mɔk̚/
Wang Li	/mɑuH/	/mɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɑuH/	/mɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mào	mò

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːws/, /*mraːwɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	眊	眊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8792	8797
Phonetic component	毛	毛
Rime group	宵	藥
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	冃	邈
Old Chinese	/*maːws/	/*mraːwɢ/

Definitions

眊

1. (literary) blurred in eyesight; dim-sighted
2. ^† befuddled; confused
3. ^† Alternative form of 旄 (máo, “a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails”).
4. ^† Alternative form of 耄 (mào, “more than 80 years old; old (age)”).

Compounds

惛眊 憒眊／愦眊 昏眊

眊眊 眊眊眊 眊眊稍稍

眊聵／眊聩 老眊 (lǎomào) 鈍眊／钝眊

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Japanese

Kanji

眊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. dim-sighted
2. eyes not seeing clearly

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō), もう (mō), ばく (baku), まく (maku)
• Kun: くらい (kurai)

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Korean

Hanja

眊 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

1. blurred eyesight