莽
See also: 茻
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Translingual
Han character
莽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈大廿 (TIKT), four-corner 44443, composition ⿳艹犬廾)
Derived characters
Additional Derived Characters
- 𠻵, 𢟨, 𢳠, 𣙷, 𤛘, 𦟮, 𥕊, 𧬏, 𲋟, 𩪎, 𣯬, 𩅁
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1036, character 41
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31132
- Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3216, character 13
- Unihan data for U+83BD
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 莽 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series (茻) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːŋʔ, *moːʔ, *maːʔ): phonetic 茻 (OC *maːŋʔ) + semantic 犬, and also ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 茻 + semantic 犬 (Li Xueqin, 2012).
Etymology 1
| trad. | 莽 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 莽 | |
| alternative forms | 莾 𦷶 𢳠 | |
Compare Chepang माङः (mang', “a kind of tall, thick-stemmed grass with very small seeds”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mong5 / mong6
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mung3 / mng3 / morng3
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bóng
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: mǎng
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mǎng
- Wade–Giles: mang3
- Yale: mǎng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maang
- Palladius: ман (man)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɑŋ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mong5 / mong6
- Yale: móhng / mohng
- Cantonese Pinyin: mong5 / mong6
- Guangdong Romanization: mong5 / mong6
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔːŋ¹³/, /mɔːŋ²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: mung3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mn̂g
- Sinological IPA (key): /muŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: mng3
- Sinological IPA (key): /mŋ̍³³²/
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: morng3
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mô̤ng
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɒŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: morng3
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɒŋ³³²/
- (Putian)
Note:
- mung3/mng3 - vernacular;
- morng3 - literary.
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóng
- Tâi-lô: bóng
- Phofsit Daibuun: borng
- IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Middle Chinese: muX, mangX, muwX
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*maːŋʔ/, /*moːʔ/, /*maːʔ/
Definitions
莽
- thick weeds, luxuriant growth
- Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum, whose fruits resemble star anise but are highly toxic
- rude, impertinent
Compounds
Etymology 2
| trad. | 莽 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 莽 | |
| alternative forms | 吂 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mang1
- Mandarin
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: mang1
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mang
- Sinological IPA (key): /maŋ⁵⁵/
- (Chengdu)
Definitions
莽
- (Sichuanese, of a person) stocky; heavy; stout; fat
- (Sichuanese, of an object) thick; bulky
- (Sichuanese, of a person) silly; foolish; simple
- (Sichuanese, of a person) rash
Compounds
- 莽呆呆
- 莽大漢 / 莽大汉
- 莽大漢兒 / 莽大汉儿
- 莽娃兒 / 莽娃儿
- 莽子
- 莽粗粗
- 莽頭莽腦 / 莽头莽脑
References
- “莽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “莽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 152.
Japanese
Kanji
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Korean
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Vietnamese
Han character
莽: Hán Nôm readings: mảng, mãng
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