mó
scheme
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 謨
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
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plan | ||
Wangmo county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qiánxīnánzhōu], Guizhou | ||
Wangmo county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[Qiánxīnánzhōu], Guizhou |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤ[a] | mu | mó | 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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