耄

耄

耄 U+8004, 耄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8004 ← 考 [U+8003] CJK Unified Ideographs 者 → [U+8005]

Translingual

Han character

耄 (radical 125, 老+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十心竹手山 (JPHQU), four-corner 4471₄, composition ⿱老毛)

1. elderly person
2. very old, senile

References

• KangXi: page 960, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28848
• Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2781, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8004

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		耄

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): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

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

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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: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mō͘
    • Tâi-lô: mōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɑu^H/▼

Rime
Character	耄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫報切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/mɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/mɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mawH/
Li Rong	/mɑuH/
Wang Li	/mɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	耄
Reading #	1/1
No.	8788
Phonetic component	毛
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	冃
Old Chinese	/*maːws/

Definitions

耄

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Compounds

老耄 (lǎomào) 耄勤 耄思

耄期 耄耋 (màodié) 耄艾

耄荒 耄齡／耄龄 謬耄／谬耄

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Japanese

Kanji

耄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. senility

Readings

• On (unclassified): もう (mō); ぼう (bō)
• Kun: おいぼれる (oiboreru, 耄れる)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

耄 (mạo)

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