茉

See also: 苿

茉	U+8309, 茉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8309

← 茈
[U+8308]

CJK Unified Ideographs

茊 →
[U+830A]

Translingual

Han character

茉 (radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿木十 (TDJ), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱艹末)

References

KangXi: page 1026, character 9

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30841

Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 5

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3185, character 12

Unihan data for U+8309

Chinese

trad.		茉
simp. ^#		茉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (末) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
眛	maːds, mɯːds
沬	maːds, hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	mreːds, maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	meːd, maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶
Min Nan (POJ): bā / bāu / bāng / ba̍k / boa̍h / boa̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mo⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mò
  - IPA ^(key): /mwɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mut⁶
  - Yale: muht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bā
  - Tâi-lô: bā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ba
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ba²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ba⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāu
  - Tâi-lô: bāu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bau
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /baʊ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāng
  - Tâi-lô: bāng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bang
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /baŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k
  - Tâi-lô: ba̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bak
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bak̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍h
  - Tâi-lô: bua̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boah
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /buaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍t
  - Tâi-lô: bua̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boat
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /buat̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /buat̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /buat̚¹²¹/

Note:

bā/bāu/bāng/ba̍k/boa̍h - vernacular;
boa̍t - literary.

Definitions

茉

Only used in 茉莉 (mòlì).

Japanese

Kanji

茉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

white jasmine

Readings

Go-on: まち (machi); まつ (matsu)
Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)
Kun: み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

茉 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茉 (mạt, nhi)

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