# 茉

| 茉 | U+8309, &#33545; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8309 |
| ← 茈 [U+8308] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 茊 → [U+830A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

茉 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿木十 (TDJ), four-corner 4490$_4$, composition ⿱艹末)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 9
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30841
* Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 12
* Unihan data for U+8309

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 末 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 眛 | *maːds, *mɯːds |
| 沬 | *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds |
| 佅 | *mraːds |
| 韎 | *mreːds, *maːd |
| 帓 | *mraːd |
| 粖 | *meːd, *maːd |
| 末 | *maːd |
| 昩 | *maːd |
| 秣 | *maːd |
| 靺 | *maːd |
| 眜 | *maːd |
| 抹 | *maːd |
| 妺 | *maːd |
| 怽 | *maːd |
| 沫 | *maːd |
| 袜 | *maːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mò (mo$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mut$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bā / bāu / bāng / ba̍k / boa̍h / boa̍t
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mò
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mò
*** Wade–Giles: mo$^4$
*** Yale: mwò
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
*** Palladius: мо (mo)
*** Sinological IPA : /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mut$^6$
*** Yale: muht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mut$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mud$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /muːt̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bā
*** Tâi-lô: bā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ba
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ba²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ba⁴¹/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāu
*** Tâi-lô: bāu
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bau
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /bau²²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāng
*** Tâi-lô: bāng
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bang
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /baŋ²²/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k
*** Tâi-lô: ba̍k
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bak
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bak̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍h
*** Tâi-lô: bua̍h
*** Phofsit Daibuun: boah
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /buaʔ⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍t
*** Tâi-lô: bua̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: boat
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /buat̚²⁴/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /buat̚⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /buat̚¹²¹/
* bā/bāu/bāng/ba̍k/boa̍h - vernacular;
* boa̍t - literary.
* Middle Chinese: mat
Rime :
| Character | 茉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 末 (64) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫撥切 |
| Baxter | mat |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /muɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mʷɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /muɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mwat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /muɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /muɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /muɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mò |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mut$^6$ |

### Definitions

茉
* Only used in 茉莉 (mòlì).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* white jasmine

#### Readings

* Go-on: まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
* Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)
* Kun: み (mi)

## Korean
### Hanja

茉 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

茉: Hán Nôm readings: mạt, nhi
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