mǔ
male of animals
Phonosemantic compound. 牛 represents the meaning and 土 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 牡
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
oyster | ||
Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[HézéShì], Shandong | ||
key | ||
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China | ||
Mudanjiang prefecture level city in Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hēilóngjiāng] in northeast China |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m(r)uʔ | muwX | mǔ | male |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2494% of movies
3181st most common character in movies
3001st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+7261 |
Shuowen | “牡，畜父也。从牛，土聲。” |
Sources
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