慕
mù HSK7

admire, desire

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Phonosemantic compound. ⺗ represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.

Components

莫
莫 Sound component
⺗
⺗ Meaning component

⺗ is a component form of 心.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmuH(C.)mˤak-s love; long for

說文解字

《說文》：“慕，習也。从心，莫聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)