瞀

瞀

瞀 U+7780, 瞀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7780 ← 睿 [U+777F] CJK Unified Ideographs 瞁 → [U+7781]

Translingual

Han character

瞀 (radical 109, 目+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 弓大月山 (NKBU), four-corner 1860₄, composition ⿱敄目)

1. to look at closely
2. nearsighted
3. dim
4. indistinct vision

References

• KangXi: page 813, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23541
• Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2504, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7780

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瞀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moːɡs, *mroːɡ) : phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 目 (“eye”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mau⁶
    • Yale: mauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /məu^H/, /mˠʌk̚/▼

Rime
Character	瞀	瞀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	莫候切	莫角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/	/mˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/	/mᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/	/mɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/	/maɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/muH/	/mɔk̚/
Wang Li	/məuH/	/mɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/	/mɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu	mò

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤ<r>uk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡs/, /*mroːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mào
Middle Chinese	‹ mæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁ<r>uk/
English	troubled eyesight
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瞀	瞀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8808	8866
Phonetic component	矛	矛
Rime group	竇	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	茂	邈
Old Chinese	/*moːɡs/	/*mroːɡ/

Definitions

瞀

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Compounds

悶瞀／闷瞀 昏瞀

瞀亂／瞀乱 瞀儒

雀瞀 雞瞀眼／鸡瞀眼

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Japanese

Kanji

瞀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to look at closely
2. nearsighted
3. dim
4. indistinct vision

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō), も (mo), む (mu), ばく (baku), まく (maku)

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Korean

Hanja

瞀 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu)

1. dim
2. cloudy
3. ignorant