冃

See also: 日 and 月

冃 U+5183, 冃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5183 ← 冂 [U+5182] CJK Unified Ideographs 冄 → [U+5184]

Translingual

Han character

冃 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 月一一 (BMM) or 難月一一 (XBMM), composition ⿵冂二)

Derived characters

• 冒, 冕, 𦐇, 塌

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 128, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1508
• Dae Jaweon: page 289, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 96, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5183
• International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 冃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Small seal script s05480
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
媢	*mɯɡs, *muːʔ, *muːɡs, *muːɡ
冃	*muːɡs
冒	*muːɡs, *mɯːɡ
帽	*muːɡs
瑁	*muːɡs, *mɯːɡs, *muːɡ
賵	*m̥ʰuŋs
艒	*mɯːɡ, *muːɡ, *muːɡ
萺	*muːɡ, *muɡ
勗	*hmoɡ
勖	*hmoɡ

Pictogram (象形): a hat — original form of 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”), in which it appears as ⺜.

See also 敖, 免, and 美. See also the inner component of 蒙.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 冃 – see 帽 (“hat; cap; cap; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 帽).

Japanese

Kanji

冃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)、もう (mō)
• Kun: ずきん (zukin, 冃)、おおう (oou, 冃う)^{←おほふ (ofofu, 冃ふ, historical)}

Korean

Hanja

冃 (eum 모 (mo))

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