默

See also: 黙

默	U+9ED8, 默 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED8

← 黗
[U+9ED7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

黙 →
[U+9ED9]

Translingual

Japanese	黙
Simplified	默
Traditional	默

Han character

默 (radical 203, 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈大 (WFIK), four-corner 6333₄, composition ⿰黑犬)

References

KangXi: page 1519, character 11

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063

Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 24

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4744, character 11

Unihan data for U+9ED8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		默
variant forms		嘿黙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 默
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (黑) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
嚜	*mrɯɡs
嫼	*ʔmrɯːd
墨	*mlɯːɡ
默	*mlɯːɡ
纆	*mɯːɡ
黑	*hmlɯːɡ
潶	*hmlɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mlɯːɡ) : phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”) – a dog silently chasing a person.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶
Min Dong (BUC): mĕk
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): be̍k / bia̍k
(Teochew, Peng'im): mig⁸
Wu (Wiktionary): meq (T5)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mo⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mak⁶
  - Yale: mahk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mĕk
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛiʔ⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: be̍k
  - Tâi-lô: bi̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /biɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: bia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biak̚²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mig⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mi̍k
  - IPA ^(key): /mik̚⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: meq (T5)
  - IPA ^(key): /məʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: /mək̚/▼

Rime
Character	默
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	德 (131)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫北切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mək̚/
Li Rong	/mək̚/
Wang Li	/mək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*mlɯːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	默
Reading #	1/1
No.	5107
Phonetic component	黑
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	墨
Old Chinese	/*mlɯːɡ/

Definitions

默

to be silent; to keep quiet; to keep still
secretly; covertly; imperceptibly
to write from memory
A surname.

Compounds

冥默
啞默悄靜／哑默悄静
啽默
喑默
幽默 (yōumò)
幽默感 (yōumògǎn)
循默
慎默
打破沉默
拱默
沉默 (chénmò)
沉默寡言 (chénmòguǎyán)
沉默是金 (chénmò shì jīn)
沖默／冲默
淵默／渊默
潛神默思／潜神默思
潛神默記／潜神默记
潛移默化／潜移默化 (qiányímòhuà)
潛移默奪／潜移默夺
潛移默運／潜移默运
理默

瘖默
眇默
緘默／缄默 (jiānmò)
緘默權／缄默权
靜默／静默 (jìngmò)
鴉默雀靜／鸦默雀静 (yāmoqiǎojìng)
黑色幽默 (hēisè yōumò)
默不作聲／默不作声 (mòbùzuòshēng)
默劇／默剧 (mòjù)
默哀 (mò'āi)
默唸／默念
默坐 (mòzuò)
默契 (mòqì)
默存
默寫／默写 (mòxiě)
默念 (mòniàn)
默思
默想 (mòxiǎng)
默書／默书 (mòshū)
默無一言／默无一言
默然 (mòrán)

默然無聲／默然无声
默照禪／默照禅
默片 (mòpiàn)
默示 (mòshì)
默祐
默禱／默祷
默稿
默算
默記／默记
默許／默许 (mòxǔ)
默認／默认 (mòrèn)
默誦／默诵
默識／默识
默讀／默读 (mòdú)
默默 (mòmò)
默默不語／默默不语
默默無聞／默默无闻
默默無聲／默默无声
默默無言／默默无言
默默無語／默默无语

Japanese

Shinjitai	黙
Kyūjitai	默

Kanji

默

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黙)

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Readings

On (unclassified): もく (moku)
Kun: だまる (damaru, 默る)

Korean

Hanja

默 • (muk) (hangeul 묵, revised muk, McCune–Reischauer muk, Yale muk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

默 (mặc, mắc)

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