莈

莈

莈 U+8388, 莈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8388 ← 莇 [U+8387] CJK Unified Ideographs 莉 → [U+8389]

Translingual

Han character

莈 (radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿水弓水 (TENE), four-corner 4434₇, composition ⿱艹没(G) or ⿱艹沒(HT))

References

• KangXi: page 1033, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31031
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3225, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8388

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Chinese

trad.		莈
simp. #		莈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (沒) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
沒	*mɯːd
歿	*mɯːd
莈	*mɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯːd) : phonetic 艹 (OC *sʰuːʔ, “grass; herb”) + semantic 沒.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mut⁶
    • Yale: muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /muət̚/▼

Rime
Character	莈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫勃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/muot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwət̚/
Li Rong	/muət̚/
Wang Li	/muət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/muət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莈
Reading #	1/1
No.	9237
Phonetic component	没
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	没
Old Chinese	/*mɯːd/

Definitions

莈

1. A type of medicinal herb.