毻

毻 U 6BFB, 毻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BFB ← 毺 [U 6BFA] CJK Unified Ideographs 毼 → [U 6BFC]

Translingual

Han character

毻 (Kangxi radical 82, 毛 9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大月竹手山 (KBHQU), four-corner 4221₄, composition ⿰⿱左月毛)

1. to moult
2. to change the coat of animals
3. (Cantonese) muddled, confused

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 595, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16899
• Dae Jaweon: page 986, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2001, character 14
• Unihan data for U 6BFB

Chinese

trad.		毻
simp. #		毻
alternative forms		毤 𣮲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (隓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鬌	*ʔl'oːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *l'ol
隋	*l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *ljol
墮	*l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːlʔ, *hlol
媠	*l̥ʰoːlʔ, *l'oːls
橢	*l̥ʰoːlʔ
嫷	*l̥ʰoːls, *l'oːlʔ
毻	*l̥ʰoːls, *l̥ʰoːds
堶	*l'oːl
憜	*l'oːlʔ
惰	*l'oːlʔ, *l'oːls
嶞	*l'oːlʔ
髓	*slolʔ
瀡	*slolʔ, *slols
隨	*ljol
隓	*hlol
隳	*hlol
撱	*lolʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tuò (tuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): to³
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵thu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tuò
    • Wade–Giles: tʻo⁴
    • Yale: twò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuoh
    • Palladius: то (to)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: to³
    • Yale: to
    • Cantonese Pinyin: to³
    • Guangdong Romanization: to³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔː³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵thu
    • MiniDict: thu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²thu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /tʰu³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: thwajH, thwaH

Rime
Character	毻	毻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	他外切	湯卧切
Baxter	thwajH	thwaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰʷɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰuɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰwajH/	/tʰwaH/
Li Rong	/tʰuɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Wang Li	/tʰuɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰuɑiH/	/tʰuɑH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tuì	tuò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	teoi3	to3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰoːls/, /*l̥ʰoːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毻	毻
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5421	5432
Phonetic component	隓	隓
Rime group	歌	祭
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime		娧
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰoːls/	/*l̥ʰoːds/

Definitions

毻

1. (literary) to moult; to shed
2. (Northern Wu) to lose hair or fur

   我常常毻頭髮。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   我常常毻头发。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ⁶ngu ⁶zan-zan ⁵thu ⁶deu-faq [Wugniu]

   I always lose hair.