mù
admire, desire
Phonosemantic compound. ⺗ represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 慕
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to envy | ||
to admire | ||
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany | ||
to adore | ||
to admire |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*(C.)mˤak-s | muH | mù | love; long for |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.1211% of movies
2160th most common character in movies
1990th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+6155 |
Shuowen | “慕，習也。从心，莫聲。” |
Sources
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