scheme

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

莫 sound component

  Sound component

  

do not

Evolution

謨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謨 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
謨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

scheme, plan; plan; be without; to practice

Most common words with 謨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

plan

望谟县

Wangmo county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qián​xī​nán​zhōu], Guizhou

望谟

Wangmo county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qián​xī​nán​zhōu], Guizhou

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤ[a]

mu

deliberate (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3172nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B28

Shuowen

“謨,議謀也。从言,莫聲。《虞書》曰:‘咎繇謨。’,古文謨从口。”


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