# 巨毋霸
## Chinese

* 巨毋霸

### Etymology

The name was mentioned in the biography of Emperor Wang Mang in the Book of Han as the purported "self-appellation" of a giant. Both the text, and allegedly Wang himself according to the text, interpreted "巨毋" as a family name and "霸" as the given name. The biography wrote explicitly that the character was fictional, intended by its creator as a humorous pun at the expense of the emperor himself: Wang was styled 巨君 (Jùjūn), and the name 巨毋霸 (jùwúbà) could be interpreted as "Ju (巨) will never gain supremacy."
In the Book of the Later Han the alternative form 巨無霸／巨无霸 (jùwúbà) was mentioned, this time with a slight air of reality, as the name of a warrior in the service of Wang Mang.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jùwúbà
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄅㄚˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi$^6$ mou$^4$ baa$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jùwúbà
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ ㄨˊ ㄅㄚˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyùwúbà
*** Wade–Giles: chü$^4$-wu$^2$-pa$^4$
*** Yale: jyù-wú-bà
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuhwubah
*** Palladius: цзюйуба (czjujuba)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy⁵¹ u³⁵ pä⁵¹/
*** Homophones: [Show/Hide]$^{edit}$巨毋霸 巨無霸／巨无霸
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: geoi$^6$ mou$^4$ baa$^3$
*** Yale: geuih mòuh ba
*** Cantonese Pinyin: goey$^6$ mou$^4$ baa$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gêu$^6$ mou$^4$ ba$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɵy̯²² mou̯²¹ paː³³/
*** Homophones: $^{edit}$巨毋霸 巨無霸／巨无霸
* Middle Chinese: gjoX mju paeH
Rime :
| Character | 巨 | 毋 | 霸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) | 明 (4) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) | 虞 (24) | 麻 (98) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | II |
| Fanqie | 其吕切 | 武夫切 | 必駕切 |
| Baxter | gjoX | mju | paeH |
| Reconstructions ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɡɨʌ$^X$/ | /mɨo/ | /pˠa$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɡiɔ$^X$/ | /mio/ | /pᵚa$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɡiɔ$^X$/ | /mio/ | /pa$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /gɨə̆$^X$/ | /muə̆/ | /paɨ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɡiɔ$^X$/ | /mio/ | /pa$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɡĭo$^X$/ | /mĭu/ | /pa$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /gi̯wo$^X$/ | /mi̯u/ | /pa$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jù | wú | bà |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | geoi$^6$ | mou$^4$ | baa$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaʔ ma praːɡs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 毋 | 霸 | 霸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wú | bà | pò |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mju › | ‹ pæ$^H$ › | ‹ phæk › |
| Old Chinese | /*mo/ | /*pˁrak-s/ | /*[pʰˁ]rak/ |
| English | don"t | have hegemony | new moon |
| 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 | 巨 | 毋 | 霸 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 7047 | 9301 | 181 |
| Phonetic component | 巨 | 母 | 霸 |
| Rime group | 魚 | 魚 | 暮 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | | 無 | 霸 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡaʔ/ | /*ma/ | /*praːɡs/ |
| Notes | | 母轉註字 | |

### Proper noun

巨毋霸
* (humorous) Juwuba (name of a fictional giant, 1st century)

### Noun

巨毋霸
* (figurative) Alternative form of 巨無霸／巨无霸 (jùwúbà, “big or invincible person or thing; Big Mac”)