# 苜

| 苜 | U+82DC, &#33500; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82DC |
| ← 苛 [U+82DB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 苝 → [U+82DD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

苜 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿月山 (TBU), four-corner 4460$_0$, composition ⿱艹目)

#### Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 𥄕 (U+25115, "uneven eyes"), which contains ⻀, the ram's horn component instead of the grass radical.

#### Derived characters

* 𢱁, 𢉧, 𦱛, 𦳮, 𭔗, 𨘚, 𦢐
* 𥢞 (Exception: Only for mainland China character form which contains grass radical. Taiwan character form contains ⻀ instead)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1023, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30787
* Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3190, character 4
* Unihan data for U+82DC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 瞐 | *mroːɡ |
| 苜 | *moːd, *muɡ |
| 目 | *muɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːd, *muɡ) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 目 (OC *muɡ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mù (mu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): muk$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): borh$^7$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mù
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mù
*** Wade–Giles: mu$^4$
*** Yale: mù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
*** Palladius: му (mu)
*** Sinological IPA : /mu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: muk$^6$
*** Yale: muhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: muk$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /mʊk̚²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: borh$^7$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɒʔ⁴/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: borh$^7$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɒʔ²⁴/
* Middle Chinese: mjuwk, mat
Rime :
| Character | 苜 | 苜 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (4) | 末 (64) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | I |
| Fanqie | 莫六切 | 莫撥切 |
| Baxter | mjuwk | mat |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mɨuk̚/ | /muɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miuk̚/ | /mʷɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /miuk̚/ | /muɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /muwk̚/ | /mwat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /miuk̚/ | /muɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭuk̚/ | /muɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi̯uk̚/ | /muɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mù | mò |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | muk$^6$ | mut$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*moːd/, /*muɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 苜 | 苜 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 9332 | 9334 |
| Phonetic component | 目 | 目 |
| Rime group | 月 | 覺 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 末 | 目 |
| Old Chinese | /*moːd/ | /*muɡ/ |
| Notes | 上從卝，與蔑同源 | 見史記 |

### Definitions

苜
* Only used in 苜蓿 (mùxu, “Medicago”).

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03457

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “苜”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 161.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* clover
* medic

#### Readings

* Go-on: もく (moku)
* Kan-on: ぼく (boku)

#### Compounds

* 苜蓿(もくしゅく) (mokushuku): Medicago polymorpha

## Korean
### Hanja

苜 • (mok) (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune–Reischauer mok, Yale mok)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

苜: Hán Nôm readings: mục
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation