# 耄

| 耄 | U+8004, &#32772; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8004 |
| ← 考 [U+8003] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 者 → [U+8005] |

## Translingual
### Han character

耄 (Kangxi radical 125, 老+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十心竹手山 (JPHQU), four-corner 4471$_4$, composition ⿱老毛)

#### Derived characters

* 𣮳

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 960, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28848
* Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2781, character 1
* Unihan data for U+8004

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 毛 | *maːw, *maːws |
| 髦 | *maːw |
| 旄 | *maːw, *maːws |
| 芼 | *maːw, *maːws |
| 氂 | *rɯ, *maːw |
| 枆 | *maːw |
| 酕 | *maːw |
| 牦 | *maːw |
| 耄 | *maːws |
| 覒 | *maːws |
| 眊 | *maːws, *mraːwɢ |
| 耗 | *hmaːws |
| 秏 | *hmaːws, *hmɯːbs |
| 毣 | *mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mào (mao$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mou$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mō͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mào
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mào
*** Wade–Giles: mao$^4$
*** Yale: màu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
*** Palladius: мао (mao)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mou$^6$
*** Yale: mouh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mou$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mou$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /mou̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mō͘
*** Tâi-lô: mōo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: mo
*** IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃³³/
* Middle Chinese: mawH
Rime :
| Character | 耄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫報切 |
| Baxter | mawH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /maw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /mɑu$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mào |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mou$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*maːws/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 耄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8788 |
| Phonetic component | 毛 |
| Rime group | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 冃 |
| Old Chinese | /*maːws/ |

#### Definitions

耄
* (literary) very old; senile
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) befuddled; confused

#### Compounds

* 老耄 (lǎomào)
* 耄勤
* 耄思
* 耄期
* 耄耋 (màodié)
* 耄艾
* 耄荒
* 耄齡 / 耄龄
* 謬耄 / 谬耄

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mauh
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mauh
*** Tâi-lô: mauh
*** Phofsit Daibuun: mauq
*** IPA (Xiamen): /mãuʔ³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /mãuʔ⁵/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /mãuʔ³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /mãuʔ³²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /mãuʔ³²/

#### Definitions

耄
* (Hokkien) sunken in; shriveled; emaciated (especially the mouth of an old person)
* (Hokkien) to chew slowly as a toothless person
* (Mainland China Hokkien) to shrivel; to cave in; to sink in
    喙耄落去 [Hokkien] ― 喙 mauh lo̍h-khì [Pe̍h-ōe-jī] ― The mouth caved in.
* (Mainland China Hokkien) to embezzle; to misappropriate

#### Compounds

* 糜糜耄耄
* 耄喙
* 耄索
* 耄齒 / 耄齿

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* senility

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): もう (mō)、ぼう (bō)
* Kun: おいぼれる (oiboreru, 耄れる)

## Korean
### Hanja

耄 (eum 모 (mo))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

耄: Hán Nôm readings: mạo
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