巨毋霸

Chinese

		very large; huge; tremendous very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic	no; not	feudal chief; rule by force; tyrant feudal chief; rule by force; tyrant; lord; master; hegemon; usurp
trad. (巨毋霸)		巨	毋	霸
simp. #(巨毋霸)		巨	毋	霸
alternative forms		巨無霸／巨无霸

Etymology

The name was mentioned in the biography of Emperor Wang Mang in the Book of Han as the purported "self-appellation" of a giant. Both the text, and allegedly Wang himself according to the text, interpreted "巨毋" as a family name and "霸" as the given name. The biography wrote explicitly that the character was fictional, intended by its creator as a humorous pun at the expense of the emperor himself: Wang was styled 巨君 (Jùjūn), and the name 巨毋霸 (jùwúbà) could be interpreted as "Ju (巨) will never gain supremacy."

In the Book of the Later Han the alternative form 巨無霸／巨无霸 (jùwúbà) was mentioned, this time with a slight air of reality, as the name of a warrior in the service of Wang Mang.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jùwúbà

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄅㄚˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi⁶ mou⁴ baa³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jùwúbà
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄅㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyùwúbà
    • Wade–Giles: chü⁴-wu²-pa⁴
    • Yale: jyù-wú-bà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuhwubah
    • Palladius: цзюйуба (czjujuba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹ u³⁵ pä⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 巨毋霸 巨無霸／巨无霸

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: geoi⁶ mou⁴ baa³
    • Yale: geuih mòuh ba
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey⁶ mou⁴ baa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu⁶ mou⁴ ba³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯²² mou̯²¹ paː³³/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 巨毋霸 巨無霸／巨无霸

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• Middle Chinese: gjoX mju paeH

Rime
Character	巨	毋	霸
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	明 (4)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	虞 (24)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III	II
Fanqie	其吕切	武夫切	必駕切
Baxter	gjoX	mju	paeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨʌX/	/mɨo/	/pˠaH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɔX/	/mio/	/pᵚaH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiɔX/	/mio/	/paH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨə̆X/	/muə̆/	/paɨH/
Li Rong	/ɡiɔX/	/mio/	/paH/
Wang Li	/ɡĭoX/	/mĭu/	/paH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯woX/	/mi̯u/	/paH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jù	wú	bà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi6	mou4	baa3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaʔ  ma  praːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	毋	霸	霸
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú	bà	pò
Middle Chinese	‹ mju ›	‹ pæH ›	‹ phæk ›
Old Chinese	/*mo/	/*pˁrak-s/	/*[pʰˁ]rak/
English	don"t	have hegemony	new moon
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	巨	毋	霸
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1
No.	7047	9301	181
Phonetic component	巨	母	霸
Rime group	魚	魚	暮
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		無	霸
Old Chinese	/*ɡaʔ/	/*ma/	/*praːɡs/
Notes		母轉註字

Proper noun

巨毋霸

1. (humorous) Juwuba (name of a fictional giant, 1st century)

Noun

巨毋霸

1. (figurative) Alternative form of 巨無霸／巨无霸 (jùwúbà, “big or invincible person or thing; Big Mac”)