Chinese Character Wiki
模

mó, mú

model

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

莫 sound component

莫  Sound component

mò

  

do not

Evolution

模 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
模 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
模 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
模 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

模  

mó

model, standard, pattern; copy; to imitate; model; norm; pattern

模  

mú

mold; die; matrix

Most common words with 模
Freq.
Word
Meaning

模特

(fashion) model (loanword)

模式

mode

规模

scale

模

model

模型

model

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤa

mu

mó

model


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 43.6969% of movies

707th most common character in movies

689th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6A21

Shuowen

“模，法也。从木，莫聲。讀若嫫母之嫫。”


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