牡

See also: 牝

牡	U+7261, 牡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7261

← 牠
[U+7260]

CJK Unified Ideographs

牢 →
[U+7262]

Translingual

Han character

牡 (radical 93, 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 2451₀, composition ⿰牛土)

Derived characters

𪋂, 𧚒

References

KangXi: page 697, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1801, character 2
Unihan data for U+7261

Chinese

simp. and trad.		牡

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯwʔ) : semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 土 (OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǔ (mu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁵, mau⁵
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): bó͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhou²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ
  - Wade–Giles: mu³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muu
  - IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: maau⁵, mau⁵
  - Yale: máauh, máuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁵, mau⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mao⁵, meo⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /mäːu̯¹³/, /mɐu̯¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘
  - Tâi-lô: bóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhou²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bóu
  - IPA ^(key): /bou⁵²/

Middle Chinese: /məu^X/▼

Rime
Character	牡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫厚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/məu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/məu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məw^X/
Li Rong	/mu^X/
Wang Li	/məu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǒu

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)uʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*mɯwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	牡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ muw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)uʔ/
English	male
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	牡
Reading #	1/1
No.	9321
Phonetic component	牡
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	母
Old Chinese	/*mɯwʔ/

Definitions

牡

(obsolete) male of animals
Antonym: 牝

Synonym: 雄 (modern Mandarin)
- 駉駉牡馬 / 駉駉牡马 ― jiōngjiōng mǔ mǎ ― the strong stallions
(obsolete) male genitals
(obsolete) bolt of door

Compounds

四牡
堅牡／坚牡
松葉牡丹／松叶牡丹
求牡
牝牡
牝牡驪黃／牝牡骊黄
牝雞牡鳴／牝鸡牡鸣

牡丹 (mǔdān)
牡丹亭
牡丹江 (Mǔdānjiāng)
牡丹花
牡蠣／牡蛎 (mǔlì)
牡鹿

白牡丹
秋牡丹
野牡丹
門牡／门牡
關牡／关牡
雉求牡匹

Japanese

Kanji

牡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Go-on: む (mu); も (mo)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
Kun: おす (osu, 牡)

Korean

Hanja

牡 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牡 (mẫu)

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