卯

卯 (radical 26, 卩+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中 (HHSL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰𠂎卩)

• 柳 留

• KangXi: page 159, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2847
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 311, character 5
• Unihan data for U+536F

Historical forms of the character 卯
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

This character was found in oracle bone scripts depicting a sacrifice (a human or animal body) that is cut in half. This kind of practice mainly happened in Shang dynasty and was gradually eliminated after Zhou's conquest of Shang, leading to obscurity of the character's original meaning.

卯

1. fourth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
2. rabbit (兔) of Chinese zodiac
3. period from 5-7 a.m.
4. early morning
5. mortise

• (earthly branches) 地支; 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: う (u, 卯)

• 卯 (ぼう)酒 (しゅ) (bōshu)
• 卯 (ぼう)酉 (ゆう)線 (せん) (bōyūsen)

From 兎 (usagi, u, “rabbit”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) う [ù] (Heiban – [0])
  • (Tokyo) う​ [úꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝ]
• Homophones: ウ, 鵜, 鰻, 有, 羽

卯 (hiragana う, rōmaji U)

1. the Rabbit, the fourth of the twelve Earthly Branches

From Middle Chinese 卯 (mæw^X)

卯 (hiragana ぼう, rōmaji Bō, historical hiragana ばう)

1. the Rabbit, the fourth of the twelve Earthly Branches

卯 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo)

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卯 (mão, mẫu, méo, Mẹo, mẻo)

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