mǒu
certain thing or person
Depicts a sweet (甘) fruit in a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "plum", now written as 梅. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 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 |
*məʔ | muwX | mǒu | so and so; a certain |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 66.1381% of movies
627th most common character in movies
517th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+67D0 |
Shuowen | “某,酸果也。从木,从甘,闕。槑,古文某从口。” |
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