𠔼

𠔼	U+2053C, 𠔼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-2053C

← 𠔻
[U+2053B]

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

𠔽 →
[U+2053D]

Translingual

Han character

𠔼 (Kangxi radical 13, 冂+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 月一 (BM), composition ⿵冂一)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 128, character 31
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 96, character 14
Unihan data for U+2053C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		𠔼

Glyph origin

Not attested as an individual character before the seal script. Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 冖 + 一 (a cloth to cover something). Some consider it to be a variant of the nearly homophonous 冃 (a hat). See 冡.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǎo (mao³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǎo
  - Wade–Giles: mao³
  - Yale: mǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mao
  - Palladius: мао (mao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Middle Chinese: muwH, mawX

Rime
Character	𠔼	𠔼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫候切	武道切
Baxter	muwH	mawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məu^H/	/mɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/məu^H/	/mɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/məu^H/	/mɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məw^H/	/maw^X/
Li Rong	/mu^H/	/mɑu^X/
Wang Li	/məu^H/	/mɑu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯u^H/	/mɑu^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu	mǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau⁶	mou⁵

Definitions

𠔼

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to repeat