字母

Chinese

		letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word	female; mother
simp. and trad. (字母)		字	母

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): zìmǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ

(Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): зыму (zɨmu, III-I)
Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ mou⁵
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-mû
Eastern Min (BUC): cê-mō̤
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): lī-bú / jī-bó / jī-bú

(Teochew, Peng'im): ri⁷ bho²
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁶zy-mu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zìmǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zìhmǔ
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-mu³
  - Yale: dz̀-mǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhmuu
  - Palladius: цзыму (czymu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zìmǔr
  - Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: zìhmǔr
  - Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-mu³-ʼrh
  - Yale: dz̀-mǔr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhmuul
  - Palladius: цзымур (czymur)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ muɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic and Wiktionary: зыму (zɨmu, III-I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁴⁴ mou²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zi⁶ mou⁵
  - Yale: jih móuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ mou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ mou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²² mou̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-mû
  - Hakka Romanization System: sii mu´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ mu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ mu²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: cê-mō̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵³ mo³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-bú
  - Tâi-lô: lī-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lixbuo
  - IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹⁻²² bu⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ bu⁵³/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bó
  - Tâi-lô: jī-bó
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jixboir
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi³³⁻²¹ bɤ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zi²²⁻²¹ bo⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bú
  - Tâi-lô: jī-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jixbuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zi³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ri⁷ bho²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jī bó
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zi¹¹ bo⁵²/
Wu
- (Shanghai):
  - Wugniu: ⁶zy-mu
  - MiniDict: zy^去 mu
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zr-mu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zz̩²² mu⁴⁴/

Noun

字母

letter (of an alphabet)
英文有26個字母。／英文有26个字母。 ― Yīngwén yǒu 26 ge zìmǔ. ― There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.
alphabet
拉丁字母 ― lādīngzìmǔ ― Latin alphabet

字母數據／字母数据 ― zìmǔ shùjù ― alphabetical data
(Chinese phonetics) character representing an initial consonant
三十六字母 ― sānshíliù zìmǔ ― Thirty-six Initials (of rime tables)
(typography) matrix
Synonym: 字模 (zìmó)

Synonyms

(alphabet): 字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo), 字母系統／字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)

Derived terms

四字母詞／四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí)
大寫字母／大写字母 (dàxiě zìmǔ)
字母圈 (zìmǔquān)
字母系統／字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)
字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo)
字母詞／字母词
拉丁字母 (Lādīng Zìmǔ)
拼音字母 (pīnyīn zìmǔ)
斯拉夫字母
腓尼基字母 (Féiníjī zìmǔ)
西里爾字母 (Xīlǐ'ěr zìmǔ)
首字母 (shǒuzìmǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
字	母
じ Grade: 1	ぼ Grade: 2
goon	kan’on

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じぼ [jíꜜbò] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑibo̞]

Noun

字(じ)母(ぼ) • (jibo)

(orthography) a letter
(orthography) a jamo

References

2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
字	母

Noun

字母 • (jamo) (hangeul 자모)

Hanja form^? of 자모 (“a hangeul letter; a jamo”).

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