mò
silent
Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the sound and 犬 represents the meaning.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mlɯːɡ | mək̚ | mò | silent |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 27.0062% of movies
1134th most common character in movies
1031st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+9ED8 |
Shuowen | “默,犬暫逐人也。从犬,黑聲。讀若墨。” |
Sources
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