毻

毻	U+6BFB, 毻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BFB

← 毺
[U+6BFA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

毼 →
[U+6BFC]

Translingual

Han character

毻 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大月竹手山 (KBHQU), four-corner 4221₄, composition ⿰⿱左月毛)

to moult
to change the coat of animals
(Cantonese) muddled, confused

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 595, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16899
Dae Jaweon: page 986, character 33
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2001, character 14
Unihan data for U+6BFB

Chinese

trad.		毻
simp. ^#		毻
alternative forms		毤𣮲

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鬌	ʔl'oːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠	l̥ʰoːlʔ, l'oːls
橢	*l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷	l̥ʰoːls, l'oːlʔ
毻	l̥ʰoːls, l̥ʰoːds
堶	*l'oːl
憜	*l'oːlʔ
惰	l'oːlʔ, l'oːls
嶞	*l'oːlʔ
髓	*slolʔ
瀡	slolʔ, slols
隨	*ljol
隓	*hlol
隳	*hlol
撱	*lolʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuò (tuo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): to³
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵thu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuò
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuò
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo⁴
  - Yale: twò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuoh
  - Palladius: то (to)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: to³
  - Yale: to
  - Cantonese Pinyin: to³
  - Guangdong Romanization: to³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵thu
  - MiniDict: thu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²thu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰu³⁴/

Middle Chinese: thwajH, thwaH

Rime
Character	毻	毻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	他外切	湯卧切
Baxter	thwajH	thwaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰʷɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwaj^H/	/tʰwa^H/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰuɑi^H/	/tʰuɑ^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuì	tuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	teoi³	to³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰoːls/, /*l̥ʰoːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毻	毻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5421	5432
Phonetic component	隓	隓
Rime group	歌	祭
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime		娧
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰoːls/	/*l̥ʰoːds/

Definitions

毻

(literary) to moult; to shed
(Northern Wu) to lose hair or fur
我常常毻頭髮。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
我常常毻头发。 [Shanghainese, simp.]
⁶ngu ⁶zan-zan ⁵thu ⁶deu-faq [Wugniu]
I always lose hair.