沐

See also: 沭

沐	U+6C90, 沐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C90

← 沏
[U+6C8F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

沑 →
[U+6C91]

Translingual

Han character

沐 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水木 (ED), four-corner 3419₀, composition ⿰氵木)

Derived characters

𣒑, 𬇪, 𣸴, 𤄄, 莯, 霂, 𭎦

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 611, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17201
Dae Jaweon: page 1003, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1558, character 7
Unihan data for U+6C90

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沐
alternative forms		沭 erroneous

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
木	*moːɡ
沐	*moːɡ
朷	taːw, moːɡ
蚞	*moːɡ
霂	*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moːɡ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 木 (OC *moːɡ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): mug⁶
Eastern Min (BUC): mŭk
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): borh⁷
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bo̍k / bok / bak

(Teochew, Peng'im): mog⁸
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁸moq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mù
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mù
  - Wade–Giles: mu⁴
  - Yale: mù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
  - Palladius: му (mu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: muk⁶
  - Yale: muhk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚²/
Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: mug⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /mʊk̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mŭk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muʔ⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: borh⁷
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bo̤̍h
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɒʔ⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bo̍k
  - Tâi-lô: bo̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bok
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔk̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔk̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bɔk̚⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bok
  - Tâi-lô: bok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bog
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔk̚⁵/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bak
  - Tâi-lô: bak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bag
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bak̚³²/

Note:

bok - “to sink into; to put into”;
bak - “to get stained; to moisten; to get involved with”.

(Teochew)
- Peng'im: mog⁸
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mo̍k
- Sinological IPA ^(key): /mok̚⁴/

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo)
  - Wugniu: ⁸moq
  - MiniDict: moh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵moq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /moʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /moʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /moʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /moʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: muwk

Rime
Character	沐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫卜切
Baxter	muwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/muk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwk̚/
Li Rong	/muk̚/
Wang Li	/muk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*moːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沐
Reading #	1/1
No.	9328
Phonetic component	木
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	木
Old Chinese	/*moːɡ/

Definitions

沐

to bathe; to shower
to cleanse
to receive
to be given
a surname
(Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to sink into; to fall into
(Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) to put in; to invest (money, etc.)
(Xiamen Hokkien) to swallow a big gulp (of liquid)
Synonym: 頜 / 颌 (ko̍p) (Min Nan)
(Xiamen Hokkien) Classifier for phlegm, blood, water.
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to get stained
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to moisten, dampen
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to get involved with
沐政治 [Hokkien] ― bak chèng-tī [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― to get involved in politics

Compounds

三沐三薰 / 三沐三熏 (sānmùsānxūn)
三薰三沐 / 三熏三沐 (sānxūnsānmù)
三釁三沐 / 三衅三沐 (sānxìnsānmù)
休沐
如沐春風 / 如沐春风 (rúmùchūnfēng)
櫛沐 / 栉沐
櫛風沐雨 / 栉风沐雨 (zhìfēngmùyǔ)
沐恩 (mù'ēn)
沐撫 / 沐抚 (Mùfǔ)
沐日
沐浴 (mùyù)
沐浴春風 / 沐浴春风
沐浴焚香
沐浴露 (mùyùlù)
沐浴鹽 / 沐浴盐
沐猴 (mùhóu)
沐猴冠冕 (mùhóuguànmiǎn)
沐猴而冠 (mùhóu'érguàn)
沐猴衣冠
沐雨櫛風 / 沐雨栉风
湯沐 / 汤沐
湯沐邑 / 汤沐邑
溟沐
熏沐
膏沐
薰沐
衣冠沐猴
雨沐風餐 / 雨沐风餐
風櫛雨沐 / 风栉雨沐
餐風沐雨 / 餐风沐雨
齋戒沐浴 / 斋戒沐浴 (zhāijièmùyù)
齋沐 / 斋沐

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “沐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 161.
“沐”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

Japanese

Kanji

沐

(Hyōgai kanji)

to wash

Readings

Go-on: もく (moku)
Kan-on: ぼく (boku)
Kun: あらう (arau, 沐う)^{←あらふ (arafu, 沐ふ, historical)}

Derived terms

沐(もく)する (mokusuru)

Korean

Hanja

沐 • (mok) (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune–Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沐: Hán Nôm readings: múc, móc, mốc, mộc

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