秏

秏

See also: 耗

秏 U+79CF, 秏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79CF ← 秎 [U+79CE] CJK Unified Ideographs 秐 → [U+79D0]

Translingual

Han character

秏 (radical 115, 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木竹手山 (HDHQU), four-corner 2291₄, composition ⿰禾毛)

1. to waste, to destroy, to diminish
2. a rat

References

• KangXi: page 850, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24946
• Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2594, character 5
• Unihan data for U+79CF

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Chinese

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

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 秏 – see 耗 (“consume, use up; waste, squander; etc.”). (This character, 秏, is a variant form of 耗.)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		秏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hào, mào (hao⁴, mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ, ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
    • IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou³
    • Yale: hou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou³
    • IPA ^(key): /hou̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /huʌi^H/, /hɑu^H/▼

Rime
Character	秏	秏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	荒内切	呼到切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huʌiH/	/hɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/huoiH/	/hɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɒiH/	/xɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwəjH/	/hawH/
Li Rong	/xuᴀiH/	/xɑuH/
Wang Li	/xuɒiH/	/xɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑ̆iH/	/xɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	hào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmaːws/, /*hmɯːbs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	秏	秏
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8795	8796
Phonetic component	毛	毛
Rime group	宵	內
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	秏
Old Chinese	/*hmaːws/	/*hmɯːbs/

Definitions

秏

1. to waste, to squander
2. to wane
3. a rat

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03090

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Japanese

Kanji

秏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), かい (kai), ぼう (bō), もう (mō)