字母

Chinese

		letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word	female; mother
simp. and trad. (字母)		字	母

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): zìmǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): зыму (zɨmu, III-I)
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ mou⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-mû
Eastern Min (BUC): cê-mō̤
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lī-bú / jī-bó / jī-bú

(Teochew, Peng'im): ri⁷ bho²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zy-mu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zìmǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zìhmǔ
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-mu³
  - Yale: dz̀-mǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhmuu
  - Palladius: цзыму (czymu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zìmǔr
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zìhmǔr
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-mu³-ʼrh
  - Yale: dz̀-mǔr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhmuul
  - Palladius: цзымур (czymur)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ muɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: зыму (zɨmu, III-I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁴⁴ mou²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi⁶ mou⁵
  - Yale: jih móuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ mou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ mou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²² mou̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-mû
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii mu^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ mu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ mu²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cê-mō̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵³ mo³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-bú
  - Tâi-lô: lī-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixbuo
  - IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹⁻²² bu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ bu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bó
  - Tâi-lô: jī-bó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jixboir
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi³³⁻²¹ bɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi²²⁻²¹ bo⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bú
  - Tâi-lô: jī-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jixbuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ri⁷ bho²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jī bó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zi¹¹ bo⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zy-mu
  - MiniDict: zy^去 mu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr-mu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²² mu⁴⁴/

Noun

字母

letter (of an alphabet)
英文有26個字母。／英文有26个字母。 ― Yīngwén yǒu 26 ge zìmǔ. ― There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
alphabet
拉丁字母 ― lādīngzìmǔ ― Latin alphabet

字母數據／字母数据 ― zìmǔ shùjù ― alphabetical data
(Chinese phonetics) character representing an initial consonant
三十六字母 ― sānshíliù zìmǔ ― Thirty-six Initials (of rime tables)
(typography) matrix
Synonym: 字模 (zìmó)

Synonyms

(alphabet): 字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo), 字母系統／字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)

Derived terms

四字母詞 / 四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí)
大寫字母 / 大写字母 (dàxiě zìmǔ)
字母圈 (zìmǔquān)
字母系統 / 字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)
字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo)
字母詞 / 字母词
拉丁字母 (Lādīng Zìmǔ)
拼音字母 (pīnyīn zìmǔ)
斯拉夫字母
腓尼基字母 (Féiníjī zìmǔ)
西里爾字母 (Xīlǐ'ěr zìmǔ)
首字母 (shǒuzìmǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
字	母
じ Grade: 1	ぼ Grade: 2
goon	kan'on

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じぼ [jíꜜbò] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑibo̞]

Noun

字(じ)母(ぼ) • (jibo)

(orthography) a letter
(orthography) a jamo

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
字	母

Noun

字母 • (jamo) (hangeul 자모)

hanja form^? of 자모 (“a hangul letter; a jamo”)