mò
ink
Chalk made from black 黑 earth 土
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.mˤək | mok | mò | ink |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.5167% of movies
1233rd most common character in movies
1493rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+58A8 |
Shuowen | “墨,書墨也。从土,从黑,黑亦聲。” |
Sources
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