莽

See also: 茻

莽 U+83BD, 莽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83BD ← 莼 [U+83BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 莾 → [U+83BE]

莽 U+2F99D, 莽 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F99D ← 茣 [U+2F99C] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 菧 → [U+2F99E]

Translingual

Han character

莽 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈大廿 (TIKT), four-corner 4444₃, composition ⿳艹犬廾)

1. thicket, underbrush
2. poisonous

Derived characters

• 㟿 漭 㬒 蟒 䥈 䒎

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1036, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31132
• Dae Jaweon: page 1495, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3216, character 13
• Unihan data for U+83BD

• Unihan data for U+2F99D

Chinese

trad.		莽
simp. #		莽
alternative forms		莾 𦷶 𢳠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
莽	*maːŋʔ, *moːʔ, *maːʔ
茻	*maːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːŋʔ, *moːʔ, *maːʔ) : phonetic 茻 (OC *maːŋʔ) + semantic 犬, and also ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 茻 + semantic 犬 (Li Xueqin, 2012).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-ljak ~ mrak ~ mruk.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): mǎng (mang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˇ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): man¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁵ / mong⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mung³ / mng³ / morng³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bóng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎng
    • Wade–Giles: mang³
    • Yale: mǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ²¹⁴/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: man¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: man
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /man⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mong⁵ / mong⁶
    • Yale: móhng / mohng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁵ / mong⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mong⁵ / mong⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ¹³/, /mɔːŋ²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mung³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mŋ̍³³²/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ³³²/

Note:

• mung3/mng3 - vernacular;
• morng3 - literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóng
    • Tâi-lô: bóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: borng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: muX, mangX, muwX

Rime
Character	莽	莽	莽
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	唐 (101)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I	I
Fanqie	莫補切	模朗切	莫厚切
Baxter	muX	mangX	muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muoX/	/mɑŋX/	/məuX/
Pan Wuyun	/muoX/	/mɑŋX/	/məuX/
Shao Rongfen	/moX/	/mɑŋX/	/məuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɔX/	/maŋX/	/məwX/
Li Rong	/moX/	/mɑŋX/	/muX/
Wang Li	/muX/	/mɑŋX/	/məuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muoX/	/mɑŋX/	/mə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǔ	mǎng	mǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou5	mong5	mau5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːŋʔ/, /*moːʔ/, /*maːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	莽	莽	莽
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	8772	8773	8775
Phonetic component	茻	茻	茻
Rime group	陽	侯	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	莽	母	姥
Old Chinese	/*maːŋʔ/	/*moːʔ/	/*maːʔ/

Definitions

莽

1. thick weeds, luxuriant growth
2. Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum, whose fruits resemble star anise but are highly toxic
3. rude, impertinent
4. (Sichuanese) silly, foolish

Compounds

• 伏莽
• 剪莽擁篲 / 剪莽拥篲
• 坱莽
• 宿莽
• 平莽
• 新莽
• 林莽 (línmǎng)
• 榛莽
• 浪莽
• 粗莽
• 草莽 (cǎomǎng)
• 草莽英雄
• 莽原
• 莽古歹
• 莽大夫
• 莽夫
• 莽撞 (mǎngzhuàng)
• 莽榛蔓草
• 莽漢 / 莽汉 (mǎnghàn)
• 莽灌夫
• 莽然
• 莽草 (mǎngcǎo)
• 莽莽 (mǎngmǎng)
• 莽莽撞撞
• 莽蒼 / 莽苍
• 莽蕩 / 莽荡
• 莽跳
• 莽鹵 / 莽卤
• 蓁莽
• 蒼莽 / 苍莽
• 雲莽莽 / 云莽莽
• 魯莽 / 鲁莽 (lǔmǎng)
• 魯莽漢 / 鲁莽汉
• 鹵莽 / 卤莽 (lǔmǎng)
• 鹵莽滅裂 / 卤莽灭裂 (lǔmǎngmièliè)

 

References

• “莽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “莽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 152.

Japanese

Kanji

莽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: も (mo)、もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa, 莽)

Korean

Hanja

莽 (eum 망 (mang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

莽: Hán Nôm readings: mảng, mãng

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References

• Nom Foundation