卯 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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See also: 卵, 卬, 戼, and 丣

Stroke order

卯 (Kangxi radical 26, 卩+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中 (HHSL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰𠂎卩)

• 㚹, 㧕, 泖, 柳, 㶯, 珋, 聊, 鉚, 铆, 飹, 駠, 乮, 奅, 峁, 茆, 昴, 窌, 笷, 㡻, 卿, 鶹
• 留, 貿, 贸 (related characters)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 159, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2847
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 311, character 5
• Unihan data for U+536F

The character represents a pair of knives to butcher animals. The original meaning is preserved in 劉 (OC *m·ru). An old and conservative variant is 戼.

This character was found in oracle bone scripts depicting a sacrifice (a human or animal body) that is cut in half. This kind of practice mainly happened in Shang dynasty and was gradually eliminated after Zhou's conquest of Shang, leading to obscurity of the character's original meaning.

According to Shuowen Jiezi, it is an open door, like 門／𨳇 (mén) but reversed; however, Xu Shen's interpretations are not based on oracle bones and bronzes. Another similar folk etymology links the character to the mortise in woodworking.

Derived from root 流 (OC *r(j)u) with volitional or agentive OC prefix *m- (see Sagart, 1999); so *m-ruu means "(cause to flow >) pour out, empty" > *m-ruuʔ 卯 "pouring or emptying stage" i.e. "waning moon", "with the word in its sacrificial applications meaning 'to blood-let'" (Smith, 2011).

Association with the rabbit was probably arbitrary, just as how 辰 (chén) was arbitrarily associated with the dragon (see Ferlus, 2013).

simp. and trad.		卯
alternative forms		丣 戼 𩇦 𩇨 𩇧 丣 戼 𩇦 𩇨 𩇧 𤕰 𦕔 𫑗

卯

1. fourth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
2. rabbit (兔) of Chinese zodiac
3. period from 5-7 a.m.
4. early morning
5. mortise

• “卯”, 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–
• 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “卯”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 29.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “卯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 152.
• 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), “卯”, 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.

卯

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: う (u, 卯)

• 卯(う)建(だつ) (udatsu)
• 卯波(うなみ) (unami), 卯浪(うなみ) (unami)　
• 卯(う)の花(はな) (unohana)
• 卯(ぼう)酒(しゅ) (bōshu)
• 卯(ぼう)酉(ゆう)線(せん) (bōyūsen)

Kanji in this term
卯
う Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From 兎 (usagi, u, “rabbit”).

• (Tokyo) う [ù] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) う [úꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟]

• Homophones: ウ, 鵜, 鰻, 有, 羽

卯(う) • (U) 

1. the Rabbit, the fourth of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

• 卯(う)月(づき) (uzuki)

Kanji in this term
卯
ぼう Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 卯 (mæw^X).

• IPA^(key): [bo̞ː]

卯(ぼう) • (Bō) ^{←ばう (Bau)?}

1. the Rabbit, the fourth of the twelve Earthly Branches

   Hypernyms: 十二支, 地支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

• “^▲卯”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

卯 (eumhun 토끼 묘 (tokki myo))

1. hanja form^? of 묘 (“rabbit”)

卯 (eumhun 넷째 지지 묘 (netjjae jiji myo))

1. hanja form^? of 묘 (“fourth Earthly Branch”)

卯: Hán Việt readings: mão^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}, mẹo^{[3][5][7][8][9]}
卯: Nôm readings: mẹo^{[1][3][4][5][7][8][9]}, méo^[1][2][3][5], mẻo^[3][9], máu^[1], mẫu^[5]

1. chữ Hán form of Mão (“fourth of the twelve earthly branches”)

   Hypernyms: 地支, 十二支

   Coordinate terms: 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

2. chữ Hán form of Mẹo (“uncommon form of Mão”)
3. chữ Nôm form of máu (“blood”)
4. chữ Nôm form of méo (“distorted; twisted”)
5. chữ Nôm form of mẹo (“ruse; trick; stratagem; tip”)