毛布

Chinese

		hair; fur; one tenth of a yuan or dollar	to declare; to announce; to spread to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known; spread; (cotton) cloth
simp. and trad. (毛布)		毛	布

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): máobù

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ bou³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: máobù
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄅㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: máobù
  - Wade–Giles: mao²-pu⁴
  - Yale: máu-bù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maubuh
  - Palladius: маобу (maobu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵ pu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁴ bou³
  - Yale: mòuh bou
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ bou³
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ bou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ pou̯³³/

Noun

毛布

coarse cotton cloth; coarse calico

Synonyms

(Xiang) 臉帕／脸帕

Japanese

Kanji in this term
毛	布
もう Grade: 2	ふ Grade: 5
goon

Etymology

Probably an orthographic borrowing from Chinese 毛布 (máobù, literally “hair + cloth”), using the expected Japanese readings of the characters. First cited to a text from 1867 with the sense wool fabric.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もーふ [móꜜòfù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]^[3]^[4]
IPA^(key): [mo̞ːɸɯ̟]

Noun

毛(もう)布(ふ) • (mōfu)

[from 1867] wool fabric
Synonym: 毛織物 (keorimono)
[from 1898] a blanket
Synonyms: ブランケット (buranketto), ケット (ketto)

References

^ “毛布”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ2-1] “毛布”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[NHK-3] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[SMK5-4] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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