牻

牻 U+727B, 牻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-727B ← 牺 [U+727A] CJK Unified Ideographs 牼 → [U+727C]

Translingual

Han character

牻 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹手戈山竹 (HQIUH), four-corner 2351₂, composition ⿰牜尨)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 700, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20020
• Dae Jaweon: page 1114, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1810, character 11
• Unihan data for U+727B

Chinese

trad.		牻
simp. #		牻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
厖	*mroːŋ
駹	*mroːŋ
狵	*mroːŋ
尨	*mroːŋ
浝	*mroːŋ
哤	*mroːŋ
牻	*mroːŋ
娏	*mroːŋ
蛖	*mroːŋ
𥆙	*mroːŋ
痝	*mroːŋ
𪁪	*muːŋʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máng (mang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máng
    • Wade–Giles: mang²
    • Yale: máng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mong⁴
    • Yale: mòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mong⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mó̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: maewng

Rime
Character	牻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫江切
Baxter	maewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠʌŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚɔŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɔŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨwŋ/
Li Rong	/mɔŋ/
Wang Li	/mɔŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɔŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	máng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mong4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mroːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	牻
Reading #	1/1
No.	8766
Phonetic component	尨
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	厖
Old Chinese	/*mroːŋ/

Definitions

牻

1. (literary) black and white cattle

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “牻”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

Japanese

Kanji

牻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: まだら (madara, 牻)