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U+7261, 牡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7261

[U+7260]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+7262]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 93, +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 24510, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𪋂, 𧚒

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1801, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7261

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (cattle) + . Various explanations exist, some propose 丄 (here unrelated to ) depicts a penis to represent “male”. Later 丄 came to be written . See also the etymology of this character.

Etymology

Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟm(oo)l (male) (whence Khmer ឈ្មោល (chmool, to be male)), Old Mon jmūr ~ jmur (male (elephant)), Proto-Waic *(k)mɔj ((wild) ox; buffalo), Proto-Vietic *mɔːlʔ (person; human being) (whence Vietnamese mọi (savage; barbarian), Muong mõl (human being)).

An oracle bone graph for this word shows a vertical stick on a horizontal ground, possibly because it had been intended for an obsolete homophone cognate with Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ (digging stick), which alongside "male" may derive from a stem represented in Old Khmer cval (to enter; to penetrate; (of animals) to copulate), Khmu [script needed] (cmɔɔl, to plant (rice) with a digging stick), [script needed] (crmɔɔl, digging stick) (ibid.; Ferlus, 1987). Schuessler (2007) further proposes a relationship with (OC *mɯʔ, “cropland; mu (a Chinese measuring unit for area)”) (ibid.); see there for more.

Pronunciation


Note: mau5 - dated variant.
Note:
  • mū - vernacular;
  • mēu - literary.

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Definitions

  1. (obsolete) male of animals
    Synonyms: (xióng), (gōng)
    Antonym: (pìn)
  2. (obsolete) male genitals
  3. (obsolete) bolt of door
  4. (obsolete) hill; hump
  5. used in 牡蠣牡蛎 (mǔlì, “oyster”)

Compounds

References

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Japanese

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. male
  2. oyster

Readings

  • Go-on: (mu) (mo)
  • Kan-on: ぼう ()
  • Kan’yō-on: (bo)
  • Kun: おす (osu, ) (o, )おん (on, )

Etymology

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
S
[noun] (obsolete in isolation) man, male
[noun] (obsolete) husband
[noun] something large, powerful, or otherwise masculine
[noun] yang (as opposed to yin)
Alternative spellings
,
おすS
[noun] a male (plant or animal)
Alternative spelling
オス
おんS
[noun] male
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(mo) (hangeul , revised mo, McCuneReischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: mẫu

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