莈

莈	U+8388, 莈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8388

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CJK Unified Ideographs

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Translingual

Han character

莈 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿水弓水 (TENE), four-corner 4434₇, composition ⿱艹没(G) or ⿱艹沒(HT))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1033, character 18
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31031
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3225, character 2
Unihan data for U+8388

Chinese

trad.		莈
simp. ^#		莈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沒	*mɯːd
歿	*mɯːd
莈	*mɯːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯːd): phonetic 艹 (OC *sʰuːʔ, “grass; herb”) + semantic 沒.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mò
  - Wade–Giles: mo⁴
  - Yale: mwò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - Palladius: мо (mo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mut⁶
  - Yale: muht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/

Middle Chinese: mwot

Rime
Character	莈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫勃切
Baxter	mwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/muot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwət̚/
Li Rong	/muət̚/
Wang Li	/muət̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mɯːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莈
Reading #	1/1
No.	9237
Phonetic component	没
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	没
Old Chinese	/*mɯːd/

Definitions

莈

A type of medicinal herb.