孟母

Chinese

		first month; eldest brother; surname	female; mother
simp. and trad. (孟母)		孟	母

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Mèngmǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁶ mou⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Bēng-bú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Mèngmǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Mèngmǔ
    • Wade–Giles: Mêng⁴-mu³
    • Yale: Mèng-mǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Menqmuu
    • Palladius: Мэнму (Mɛnmu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maang⁶ mou⁵
    • Yale: maahng móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁶ mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁶ mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ²² mou̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bēng-bú
    • Tâi-lô: Bīng-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bexngbuo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: maengH muwX

Rime
Character	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	莫更切	莫厚切
Baxter	maengH	muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋH/	/məuX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋH/	/məuX/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋH/	/məuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋH/	/məwX/
Li Rong	/mɐŋH/	/muX/
Wang Li	/mɐŋH/	/məuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɐŋH/	/mə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mèng	mǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang6	mau5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤraŋ-s  məʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋs  mɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèng	mǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ mængH ›	‹ muwX ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁraŋ-s/	/*məʔ/ (? or *mˁoʔ)
English	eldest, great	mother
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	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9152	9288
Phonetic component	皿	母
Rime group	陽	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	孟	母
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋs/	/*mɯʔ/

Proper noun

孟母

1. mother of Mencius

Derived terms

• 孟母三遷 / 孟母三迁 (mèngmǔsānqiān)
• 孟母擇鄰 / 孟母择邻
• 孟母斷織 / 孟母断织