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méi HSK5

coal

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 某 represents the sound.

Components

火
火 Meaning component
huǒ fire
某
某 Sound component
mǒu certain thing or person

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmwojmˤəsoot; coal
Zhengzhangmɯː

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang