匁

匁 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心大 (PK) or 難心大 (XPK), composition ⿻勹乂)

• 𢪤, 𥐷, 𥸼, 𮈅, 𠇢, 𢜓

• 𪠴, 𢪣, 𣲢, 𣏯, 𩛀, 𫇬, 𭥘, 𱯗, 𦁯, 𮩊, 𦿯

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 150, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2502
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 256, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5301

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 匁(もんめ) (monme)

Pronunciation borrowed from 兩／两 (liǎng).

匁

1. momme (unit of weight (3.75 grams) used for pearls, paper, and silk)

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”). Variant form of 錢 through an intermediate form 𬌩 obtained by simplifying the right-hand side.^[1]

Folk etymology considers it to be a ligature of 文(もん) (mon) and メ (me), as the unit of distance could also be written as 文(もん)目(め) (monme).

漢典 (zdic.net) posits the origin as a regular script form of 兩(りょう) (ryō), but this is dubious because the value of the 兩 was between 4 and 10 momme, and is now either 50g (mainland China) or 37.5g (Taiwan), and of similar value in Hong Kong; i.e., the units are essentially not equivalent.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. Japanese unit of weight (¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a kan)

• Kun: もんめ (monme, 匁)、め (me, 匁)

Removed from the daily use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government in 2010.^[2]

匁(もんめ) • (monme) 

1. momme; unit of mass equal to 3.75 grams (one thousandth of a 貫(かん) (kan), ten 分(ぶん) (bun))
2. (Edo) a silver coin weighing one momme, worth ¹⁄₆₀ of the 小判 (koban) (¹⁄₆₀ 両 (ryō))

Now used especially for weighing pearls.

• 一(いち)匁(もんめ) (ichimonme): 1 momme
• 百(ひゃく)匁(もんめ) (hyakumonme): 100 momme, 375 grams

• → English: momme
• → Russian: мо́мме (mómmɛ)

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 匁(もんめ) (monme).

匁 • (transliteration needed)

1. (used during the Japanese colonial period) monme