貌 U+8C8C, 貌 ← 貋[U+8C8B] CJK Unified Ideographs 貍 →[U+8C8D]
貌 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+7, 14 strokes, Cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 26210, composition ⿰豸皃)
- 𢷕, 𣞠, 𱚯, 邈, 𲌰, 藐, 㦝
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3913, character 4
- Unihan data for U+8C8C
simp. and trad. 貌 2nd round simp. 皃 alternative forms
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mreːwɢs): abbreviated phonetic 豹 (OC *preːwɢs) + semantic 皃 (“looks”).
Originally written as 皃 (OC *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ), which is a pictogram (象形) of the face.
Note a very strong formal match with Burmese မြောက် (mrauk, “to reach the apex, be consummated”). Though the semantic gap is non-trivial, a sense relation “reach the top” > “that which exists on the top or surface” > “outward appearance, expression” appears feasible.
貌
- facial appearance; facial features; looks
- outward appearance
- expression; countenance
- (Classical) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of 焂，……光動貌。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]焂，……光动貌。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: 1037, 《集韻》 (Jiyun)Shú,…… Guāng dòng mào. [Pinyin]Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.
- 匈奴謂天為「撐犁」，謂子為「孤塗」，單于者，廣大之貌也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]匈奴谓天为「撑犁」，谓子为「孤涂」，单于者，广大之貌也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: The Book of Han, circa 1st century CEXiōngnú wèi tiān wéi “chēnglí”, wèi zǐ wèi “gūtú”, chányú zhě, guǎngdà zhī mào yě. [Pinyin]The Xiongnu call “heaven” chengli and call “son” gutu; as for chanyu, it describes the vast and great appearance.
- superficial; outer
- “貌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03925
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “貌”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 177.
(Jōyō kanji)
- facial appearance
- Go-on: みょう (myō)、まく (maku)
- Kan-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)、ばく (baku)
- Kun: かたち (katachi, 貌)、かたどる (katadoru)
- “△貌”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026
From Middle Chinese 貌 (MC maewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 모〯 (mwǒ) (Yale: mwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.
貌 (eumhun 모양 모 (moyang mo))
- hanja form? of 모 (“appearance”)
- 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]
貌: Hán Nôm readings: mạo
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