瞀

瞀 U+7780, 瞀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7780 ← 睿 [U+777F] CJK Unified Ideographs 瞁 → [U+7781]

Translingual

Han character

瞀 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 弓大月山 (NKBU), four-corner 1860₄, composition ⿱敄目)

1. to look at closely
2. nearsighted
3. dim
4. indistinct vision

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 813, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23541
• Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2504, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7780

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瞀

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːɡs, *mroːɡ) : phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 目 (“eye”)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào, mòu (mao⁴, mou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ, ㄇㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁶ / mok⁶ / mou⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bō͘ / mō͘

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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/
      
  • (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 / mok⁶ / mou⁶
    • Yale: mauh / mohk / mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁶ / mok⁹ / mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁶ / mog⁶ / mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²²/, /mɔːk̚²/, /mou̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
    • Tâi-lô: bōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bo
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mō͘
    • Tâi-lô: mōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: muwH, maewk

Rime
Character	瞀	瞀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	莫候切	莫角切
Baxter	muwH	maewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/	/mˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/	/mᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/	/mɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/	/maɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/muH/	/mɔk̚/
Wang Li	/məuH/	/mɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/	/mɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau6	mok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤ<r>uk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːɡs/, /*mroːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mào
Middle Chinese	‹ mæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁ<r>uk/
English	troubled eyesight
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瞀	瞀
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8808	8866
Phonetic component	矛	矛
Rime group	竇	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	茂	邈
Old Chinese	/*moːɡs/	/*mroːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瞀

1. (literary, of eyesight) dim; dazzled; indistinct
2. (literary) confused
3. (literary) ignorant
4. Used in 瞀瞀.
5. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wú (wu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    • Wade–Giles: wu²
    • Yale: wú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瞀

1. Used in 雊瞀 (“a former juridiction with its capital in Dapu Village, Dapu Town, Zhuolu County, Hebei Province”).

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Japanese

Kanji

瞀

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to look at closely
2. nearsighted
3. dim
4. indistinct vision

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)、も (mo)、む (mu)、ばく (baku)、まく (maku)

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Korean

Hanja

瞀 (eum 무 (mu))

1. dim
2. cloudy
3. ignorant