邈

邈 U+9088, 邈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9088 ← 邇 [U+9087] CJK Unified Ideographs 邉 → [U+9089]

Translingual

Han character

邈 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜月竹山 (YBHU), four-corner 3730₁, composition ⿺辶貌)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39198
• Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3892, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9088

Chinese

trad.		邈
simp. #		邈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
貌	*mreːwɢs
皃	*mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ
藐	*mawʔ, *mraːwɢ
邈	*mraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mraːwɢ) : semantic 辶 + phonetic 貌 (OC *mreːwɢs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miǎo (miao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mok⁶, miu⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): miēu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): biáu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): miou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miǎo
    • Wade–Giles: miao³
    • Yale: myǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meau
    • Palladius: мяо (mjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mok⁶, miu⁵
    • Yale: mohk, míuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mok⁹, miu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mog⁶, miu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːk̚²/, /miːu̯¹³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: miēu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mieu³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biáu
    • Tâi-lô: biáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biau⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biau⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: miou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mióu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miou⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: maewk

Rime
Character	邈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	江 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫角切
Baxter	maewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/mɔk̚/
Wang Li	/mɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrawk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːwɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ mæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrawk/
English	distant
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	邈
Reading #	1/1
No.	8935
Phonetic component	皃
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邈
Old Chinese	/*mraːwɢ/

Definitions

邈

1. ^† far, distant, remote
2. ^† slight

Compounds

• 古邈
• 宏邈
• 悠邈
• 曠邈無家／旷邈无家
• 渺邈
• 綿邈／绵邈
• 緬邈／缅邈
• 邈冥冥
• 邈然
• 邈若山河
• 邈邈 (miǎomiǎo)

 

Japanese

Kanji

邈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ばく (baku); まく (maku)
• Kun: とおい (tooi)

Korean

Hanja

邈 (eum 막 (mak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

邈: Hán Nôm readings: mạc

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