# 拇

| 拇 | U+62C7, &#25287; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62C7 |
| ← 拆 [U+62C6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 拈 → [U+62C8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

拇 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手田卜戈 (QWYI), four-corner 5705$_0$, composition ⿰扌母)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11944
* Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1862, character 5
* Unihan data for U+62C7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 脢 | *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 挴 | *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ |
| 海 | *hmlɯːʔ |
| 毐 | *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ |
| 呣 | *mɯ |
| 拇 | *mɯʔ |
| 母 | *mɯʔ |
| 胟 | *mɯʔ |
| 姆 | *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ |
| 畮 | *mɯʔ |
| 踇 | *mɯʔ |
| 苺 | *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs |
| 莓 | *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 敏 | *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ |
| 鰵 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 慜 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 毋 | *ma |
| 梅 | *mɯː |
| 酶 | *mɯː |
| 鋂 | *mɯː |
| 每 | *mɯːʔ |
| 毎 | *mɯːs |
| 痗 | *mɯːs, *hmɯːs |
| 晦 | *hmɯːs |
| 誨 | *hmɯːs |
| 悔 | *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs |
| 霉 | *mrɯl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯʔ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).

### Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; compare Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (“thumb”) (Schuessler, 2007), as well as Burmese မ (ma., “main; feminine suffix”).
Possibly related to 母 (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”); compare Proto-Loloish *C-ma³ (“female suffix”), *ʔəC-ma³ (“mother”), Zhuang mehfwngz (“thumb”), derived from meh (“mother”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mǔ (mu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mou$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bió / bó͘ / bó / bú
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$mu; $^1$m
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mǔ
*** Wade–Giles: mu$^3$
*** Yale: mǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muu
*** Palladius: му (mu)
*** Sinological IPA : /mu²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mou$^5$
*** Yale: móuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mou$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mou$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /mou̯¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bió
*** Tâi-lô: bió
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bioir
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /bio⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘
*** Tâi-lô: bóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bor
*** IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ⁵³/
** (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó
*** Tâi-lô: bó
*** Phofsit Daibuun: boir
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Zhangzhou): /bo⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
*** Tâi-lô: bú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: buo
*** IPA (Taipei, Xiamen): /bu⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴/
* bió/bó͘ - literary;
* bó/bú - vernacular.
* Middle Chinese: muwX
Rime :
| Character | 拇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫厚切 |
| Baxter | muwX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /məu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /məu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /məu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /məw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /mu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /məu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mau$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mɯʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 拇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9287 |
| Phonetic component | 母 |
| Rime group | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 母 |
| Old Chinese | /*mɯʔ/ |

### Definitions

拇
* (anatomy) thumb
* (anatomy) big toe

### Compounds

* 二拇指 (èrmǔzhǐ)
* 大拇哥 (dàmǔgē)
* 大拇指 (dàmǔzhǐ)
* 大拇指頭／大拇指头 (dàmǔzhǐtou)
* 小拇指 (xiǎomǔzhǐ)
* 拇印
* 拇戰／拇战
* 拇指 (mǔzhǐ)
* 拇趾 (mǔzhǐ)
* 拇量
* 挑大拇哥
* 駢拇枝指／骈拇枝指

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* thumb

#### Readings

* Go-on: む (mu)、も (mo)
* Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
* Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
* Kun: おやゆび (oyayubi)

## Korean
### Hanja

拇 (eum 무 (mu))
* thumb
* big toe

## Vietnamese
### Han character

拇: Hán Nôm readings: mẫu
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