懋

懋	U+61CB, 懋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61CB

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[U+61CA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

懌 →
[U+61CC]

Translingual

Han character

懋 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木木心 (DDP), four-corner 4433₉, composition ⿱楙心)

splendid, grand, majestic

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 405, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11333
Dae Jaweon: page 746, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2358, character 2
Unihan data for U+61CB

Chinese

trad.		懋
simp. ^#		懋
alternative forms		茂

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 懋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mào, mòu (mao⁴, mou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ, ㄇㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁶

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/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mòu
  - Wade–Giles: mou⁴
  - Yale: mòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mow
  - Palladius: моу (mou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /moʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mau⁶
  - Yale: mauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: meo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²²/

Middle Chinese: muwH

Rime
Character	懋
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	/məu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/məu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/məu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məw^H/
Li Rong	/mu^H/
Wang Li	/məu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	懋
Reading #	1/1
No.	8812
Phonetic component	矛
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/

Definitions

懋

(literary) to be diligent; to work hard
(literary) to encourage; to urge
(literary) grand; magnificent; majestic
a surname

Compounds

偉懋 / 伟懋 (wěimào)
德懋棠蔭 / 德懋棠荫
懋典
懋勛 / 懋勋
懋勤殿
懋績 / 懋绩
懋遷 / 懋迁
豐功懋烈 / 丰功懋烈

References

“懋”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

懋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)
Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru, 懋める)
Nanori: つとむ (tsutomu)

Korean

Hanja

懋 (eum 무 (mu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

懋: Hán Nôm readings: mậu

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References

Nom Foundation