苜

See also: 𥄕

苜	U+82DC, 苜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82DC

← 苛
[U+82DB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

苝 →
[U+82DD]

Translingual

Han character

苜 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿月山 (TBU), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹目)

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 𥄕 (U+25115, "uneven eyes"), which contains ⻀, the ram's horn component instead of the grass radical.

Derived characters

𢱁, 𢉧, 𦱛, 𦳮, 𭔗, 𨘚, 𦢐
𥢞 (Exception: Only for mainland China character form which contains grass radical. Taiwan character form contains ⻀ instead)

References

KangXi: page 1023, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30787
Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3190, character 4
Unihan data for U+82DC

Chinese

trad.		苜
simp. ^#		苜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (目) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
瞐	*mroːɡ
苜	moːd, muɡ
目	*muɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moːd, *muɡ) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 目 (OC *muɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mù
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mù
  - Wade–Giles: mu⁴
  - Yale: mù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
  - Palladius: му (mu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: muk⁶
  - Yale: muhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚²/

Middle Chinese: /mɨuk̚/, /muɑt̚/

Rime
Character	苜	苜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	東 (4)	桓 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	莫六切	莫撥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/miuk̚/	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/miuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muwk̚/	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/miuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/mĭuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk⁶	mut⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*moːd/, /*muɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苜	苜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9332	9334
Phonetic component	目	目
Rime group	月	覺
Rime subdivision	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	末	目
Old Chinese	/*moːd/	/*muɡ/
Notes	上從卝，與蔑同源	見史記

Definitions

苜

Only used in 苜蓿 (mùxu, “Medicago”).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03457

Japanese

Kanji

苜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

clover
medic

Readings

Go-on: もく (moku)

Kan-on: ぼく (boku)

Compounds

苜蓿(もくしゅく) (mokushuku): Medicago polymorpha

Korean

Hanja

苜 • (mok) (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune–Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苜: Hán Nôm readings: mục

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References

Nom Foundation