牟

牟 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹手 (IHQ), four-corner 2350₀, composition ⿱厶牛)

• 侔, 哞, 㛌, 恈, 洠, 䏬, 桙, 毪, 眸, 蛑, 鉾(𫓴), 𩶢, 麰(𮮇), 劺, 𬼪, 𭷢, 𭷪, 𭷬, 𭷲, 鴾, 𡧷, 𦭷, 𥭏, 𨴍

• ム (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19928
• Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1800, character 7
• Unihan data for U+725F

Historical forms of the character 牟
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Ideogram (指事) : An ox (牛) with a symbol (now 厶) to represent its lowing.

“moo”

Onomatopoeic.

“to seek; to obtain”

By extension of 蛑 (OC *mu, “a type of pest that eats sprouts and roots”).

“to love”

Cognate with 慕 (OC *maːɡs, “to admire”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“look; appearance”

Variant of 模 (MC mu).

“spear”

Variant of 矛 (MC mjuw).

牟

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of cattle: moo

   alt. forms: 哞 (mōu)

2. to seek; to obtain; to seize

   alt. forms: 侔 (móu)

3. ^† to exceed; to increase; to double
4. ^† broad; great
5. ^† longlasting
6. (Han dynasty, Sòng-Lǔ dialect) to love
7. ^† look; appearance
8. ^† spear
9. ^† Alternative form of 麰／𮮇 (móu, “barley”)

   • 貽我來牟、帝命率育。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     贻我来牟、帝命率育。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yí wǒ mài móu, dì mìng shuài yù. [Pinyin]

     Thou didst confer on us the wheat and the barley, which God appointed for the nourishment of all;

10. ^† Alternative form of 眸 (móu, “eyeball”)
11. ^† Alternative form of 堥 (“earthen pot”)
12. ^† Alternative form of 侔 (móu, “to be equal”)
13. ^† Alternative form of 鍪 (móu, “helmet”)
14. (～國) (historical) Mou (an ancient state in modern-day Shandong, China)
15. a surname

牟

1. Used in place names.
2. a surname

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02487
• “牟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Min Nan) “Entry #41051”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. pupil (hole in middle of an iris)
2. moo (lowing sound of a cow)

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)

• Used in Old Japanese as a 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨mu⟩.

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 224330

牟 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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牟: Hán Nôm readings: mưu, màu, mâu, mầu, mào

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