髦

髦

髦 U+9AE6, 髦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AE6 ← 髥 [U+9AE5] CJK Unified Ideographs 髧 → [U+9AE7]

Translingual

Han character

髦 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹竹手山 (SHHQU), four-corner 7271₄, composition ⿱髟毛)

1. flowing hair of young child

References

• KangXi: page 1453, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45377
• Dae Jaweon: page 1983, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4519, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9AE6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		髦

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): máo (mao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴, mou^4-1
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mô
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): mô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máo
    • Wade–Giles: mao²
    • Yale: máu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mau
    • Palladius: мао (mao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴, mou^4-1
    • Yale: mòuh, mōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴, mou^4-1
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴, mou^4-1
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/, /mou̯²¹⁻⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mô
    • Hakka Romanization System: mo´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mo¹
    • Sinological IPA: /mo²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mâu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɑu/

Rime
Character	髦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫袍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/mɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/mɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maw/
Li Rong	/mɑu/
Wang Li	/mɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	máo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髦
Reading #	1/1
No.	8781
Phonetic component	毛
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	毛
Old Chinese	/*maːw/

Definitions

髦

1. (literary) horse's mane
2. (literary) outstanding person
3. (literary) fangs of children

   • 髧彼兩髦，實維我儀。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     髧彼两髦，实维我仪。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dàn bǐ liǎngmáo, shí wéi wǒ yí. [Pinyin]

     With his two tufts of hair falling over his forehead,
     He was my mate;

4. (literary, figurative) child

Compounds

俊髦 弁髦 英髦 髦俊 (máojùn) 髦士

髦秀 髦髫 時髦／时髦 (shímáo) 棄如弁髦／弃如弁髦 譽髦／誉髦

趕時髦／赶时髦 (gǎn shímáo) 髦兒戲／髦儿戏 髦字頭／髦字头 (máozìtóu) 髦彥／髦彦 髦頭／髦头

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Japanese

Kanji

髦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: たれがみ (taregami)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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