拇

拇	U+62C7, 拇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62C7

← 拆
[U+62C6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

拈 →
[U+62C8]

Translingual

Han character

拇 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手田卜戈 (QWYI), four-corner 5705₀, composition ⿰扌母)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11944
Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1862, character 5
Unihan data for U+62C7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		拇
alternative forms		𧿹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
脢	mɯːs, mɯː, *mɯːs
挴	mlɯːʔ, mɯːʔ
海	*hmlɯːʔ
毐	ʔmɯː, ʔmɯːʔ
呣	*mɯ
拇	*mɯʔ
母	*mɯʔ
胟	*mɯʔ
姆	mɯʔ, mɯs, *maːʔ
畮	*mɯʔ
踇	*mɯʔ
苺	mɯs, mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓	mɯs, mɯː, *mɯːs
敏	mrɯʔ, mrɯŋʔ
鰵	*mrɯŋʔ
慜	*mrɯŋʔ
毋	*ma
梅	*mɯː
酶	*mɯː
鋂	*mɯː
每	*mɯːʔ
毎	*mɯːs
痗	mɯːs, hmɯːs
晦	*hmɯːs
誨	*hmɯːs
悔	hmɯːʔ, hmɯːs
霉	*mrɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯʔ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; compare Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (“thumb”) (Schuessler, 2007), as well as Burmese မ (ma., “main; feminine suffix”).

Possibly related to 母 (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”); compare Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (“female suffix”), *ʔəC-ma³ (“mother”), Zhuang mehfwngz (“thumb”), derived from meh (“mother”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǔ (mu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bió / bó͘ / bó / bú
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹mu; ¹m

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǔ
  - Wade–Giles: mu³
  - Yale: mǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muu
  - Palladius: му (mu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mou⁵
  - Yale: móuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bió
  - Tâi-lô: bió
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bioir
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bio⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘
  - Tâi-lô: bóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó
  - Tâi-lô: bó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boir
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /bo⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
  - Tâi-lô: bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: buo
  - IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /bu⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴/

Note:

bió/bó͘ - literary;
bó/bú - vernacular.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹mu; ¹m
  - MiniDict: 'mu^平; 'm^平
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹'mu; ¹'mm
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mu⁵³/, /m̩⁵³/

Middle Chinese: muwX

Rime
Character	拇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫厚切
Baxter	muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/məu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/məu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məw^X/
Li Rong	/mu^X/
Wang Li	/məu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mɯʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拇
Reading #	1/1
No.	9287
Phonetic component	母
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	母
Old Chinese	/*mɯʔ/

Definitions

拇

(anatomy) thumb
(anatomy) big toe

Compounds

二拇指 (èrmǔzhǐ)
大拇哥 (dàmǔgē)
大拇指 (dàmǔzhǐ)
大拇指頭 / 大拇指头 (dàmǔzhǐtou)
小拇指 (xiǎomǔzhǐ)
拇印
拇戰 / 拇战
拇指 (mǔzhǐ)
拇趾 (mǔzhǐ)
拇量
挑大拇哥
駢拇枝指 / 骈拇枝指

Japanese

Kanji

拇

(Hyōgai kanji)

thumb

Readings

Go-on: む (mu)、も (mo)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
Kun: おやゆび (oyayubi)

Korean

Hanja

拇 (eum 무 (mu))

Vietnamese

Han character

拇: Hán Nôm readings: mẫu

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