袤

袤 U+88A4, 袤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-88A4 ← 袣 [U+88A3] CJK Unified Ideographs 袥 → [U+88A5]

Translingual

Han character

袤 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓竹女 (YNHV), four-corner 0073₂, composition ⿴衣矛 or ⿳亠矛𧘇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1115, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34213
• Dae Jaweon: page 1580, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3081, character 5
• Unihan data for U+88A4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		袤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mào
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴
    • Yale: màu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • Palladius: мао (mao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mau⁶
    • Yale: mauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: muwH

Rime
Character	袤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫候切
Baxter	muwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/
Li Rong	/muH/
Wang Li	/məuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	袤
Reading #	1/1
No.	8810
Phonetic component	矛
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/

Definitions

袤

1. (literary) longitude; length

Compounds

• 尤袤
• 廣袤 / 广袤 (guǎngmào)
• 延袤
• 袤廣 / 袤广

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mau

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mau
    • Tâi-lô: mau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: maw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãu⁴⁴/

Definitions

袤

1. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) build; stature
2. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to hit hard; to bash; to smash; to strike heavily

Synonyms

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• 個 / 个 (chiefly refers to height)
• 個子 / 个子 (gèzi) (chiefly refers to height)
• 個頭 / 个头 (chiefly refers to height)
• 形體 / 形体 (xíngtǐ)
• 漢草 / 汉草 (Xiamen Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 衣架 (yījià) (figurative)
• 衣架子 (yījiàzi) (figurative)
• 身材 (shēncái)
• 身架子 (seng¹ jia³ zeh) (Jin)
• 身段 (shēnduàn) (of a woman)
• 身胚 (Hakka)
• 身裝 / 身装 (Hakka)
• 骨塊 / 骨块 (Quanzhou Hokkien, Xiamen Hokkien)
• 體型 / 体型 (tǐxíng)
• 體形 / 体形 (tǐxíng)
• 體態 / 体态 (tǐtài) (including posture)

 

Compounds

• 大袤

 

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 袤 – see 㧌 (“to hit forcefully; to beat up”). (This character is a variant form of 㧌).

Japanese

Kanji

袤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)
• Kun: ながさ (nagasa)

Korean

Hanja

袤 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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