móu
plan, scheme
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə | mjuw | móu | plan (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 40.1249% of movies
794th most common character in movies
989th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8B00 |
Shuowen | “謀，慮難曰謀。从言，某聲。古文謀，亦古文。” |
Sources
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