# 蟊賊
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): máozéi, máozé
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ ㄗㄟˊ, ㄇㄠˊ ㄗㄜˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): maau$^4$ caak$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: máozéi
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄗㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: máozéi
*** Wade–Giles: mao$^2$-tsei$^2$
*** Yale: máu-dzéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mautzeir
*** Palladius: маоцзэй (maoczɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡seɪ̯³⁵/
*** Homophones: [Show/Hide]$^{edit}$毛賊／毛贼 蟊賊／蟊贼
** (Standard Chinese, literary variant)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: máozé
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ ㄗㄜˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: máozé
*** Wade–Giles: mao$^2$-tsê$^2$
*** Yale: máu-dzé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mautzer
*** Palladius: маоцзэ (maoczɛ)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɑʊ̯³⁵ t͡sɤ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: maau$^4$ caak$^6$
*** Yale: màauh chaahk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: maau$^4$ tsaak$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mao$^4$ cag$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /maːu̯²¹ t͡sʰaːk̚²/
* Middle Chinese: mjuw dzok
Rime :
| Character | 蟊 | 賊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 從 (15) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 莫浮切 | 昨則切 |
| Baxter | mjuw | dzok |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mɨu/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miu/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /miəu/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /muw/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Li Rong | /miu/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭəu/ | /d͡zək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi̯ə̯u/ | /d͡zʱək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | móu | zé |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mau$^4$ | zak$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mu zɯːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 賊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zéi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dzok › |
| Old Chinese | /*k.dzˁək/ |
| English | injure; murderer, bandit |
| 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 | 蟊 | 賊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 8815 | 16596 |
| Phonetic component | 矛 | 則 |
| Rime group | 幽 | 職 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 謀 | 賊 |
| Old Chinese | /*mu/ | /*zɯːɡ/ |

### Noun

蟊賊
* (Classical, literally) grain-eating insect
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Qù qí míngtè, jí qí máozéi, wú hài wǒ tiántí. [Pinyin]
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* (figuratively) person harmful to the country and the people
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Tiān jiàng zuìgǔ, máozéi nèihòng. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, circa 14th century CE
    Wú zhǔ Hàncháo huángshū, fǎn bùnéng zhànjù zhōujùn; qítā jiē Hàn zhī máozéi, què dōu shìqiáng qīnzhàn dìtǔ: wéi zhìzhě bùpíng yān. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 1943, Zhu Shenghao, 《漢姆萊脫》 (translation of Hamlet)
    Shàngtiān huì bùhuì jiāxǔ wǒ tì shìshàng jiǎnchú zhè yīge qiānghài tiānxìng de máozéi, bù ràng tā jìxù wéifēizuò'è? [Pinyin]
    And is't not to be damn'd to let this canker of our nature come in further euill?