旄

旄 U+65C4, 旄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65C4 ← 旃 [U+65C3] CJK Unified Ideographs 旅 → [U+65C5]

Translingual

Han character

旄 (Kangxi radical 70, 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人竹山 (YSOHU), four-corner 0821₄, composition ⿸𭤨毛)

1. a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails
2. old

Derived characters

• 𣹪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 482, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13642
• Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2177, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65C4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		旄

Glyph origin

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

	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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːw, *maːws) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 毛 (OC *maːw, *maːws)

Etymology

Li Shizhen relates 旄 (máo, “banner”) to pronunciation máo of 牦／犛 (“yak”); he also sees a possible connection of both to 毛 (máo, “hair”):

• 【時珍曰】牦與旄同，或作毛。後漢書云冉䮾夷出牦牛，一名犣牛，重千斤，毛可爲旄。觀此則旄牛之名，蓋取諸此。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]

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  【时珍曰】牦与旄同，或作毛。后汉书云冉𩧪夷出牦牛，一名犣牛，重千斤，毛可为旄。观此则旄牛之名，盖取诸此。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

  From: The Compendium of Materia Medica [Bencao Gangmu], by Li Shizhen, 1578 CE

  【 Shízhēn yuē 】 máo yǔ máo tóng, huò zuò máo. Hòuhànshū yún Rǎnmáng Yí chū máoniú, yī míng lièniú, zhòng qiān jīn, máo kě wéi máo. Guān cǐ zé máoniú zhī míng, gài qǔ zhū cǐ. [Pinyin]

  I, Shizhen, say: "Máo 牦 and máo 旄 are identical. Sometimes it's written as máo 毛. The Book of Later Han states that the máoníu 牦牛, also called lièníu 犣牛, come from the Rǎnmáng Yí. They weigh one thousand catties, and their hair can be used to decorate banners (máo 旄). This is possibly why we observe that they are named banner-bovines (máoníu 旄牛).

However, see 犛／牦 (máo) for alternative etymology.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máo (mao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máo
    • Wade–Giles: mao²
    • Yale: máu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mau
    • Palladius: мао (mao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɔ̃¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³/

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• Middle Chinese: maw, mawH

Rime
Character	旄	旄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫袍切	莫報切
Baxter	maw	mawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maw/	/mawH/
Li Rong	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Wang Li	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mɑu/	/mɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	máo	mào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4	mou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːw/, /*maːws/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	máo
Middle Chinese	‹ maw ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁaw/
English	ox-tail pennon
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	旄	旄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8782	8789
Phonetic component	毛	毛
Rime group	宵	宵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	毛	冃
Old Chinese	/*maːw/	/*maːws/

Definitions

旄

1. a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails

   • 王左杖黃鉞，右秉白旄以麾，曰：「逖矣，西土之人！」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     王左杖黄钺，右秉白旄以麾，曰：「逖矣，西土之人！」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

     Wáng zuǒ zhàng huángyuè, yòu bǐng báimáo yǐ huī, yuē: “Tì yǐ, xītǔ zhī rén!” [Pinyin]

     The king wielded in his left hand a gilded ax and held in his right hand a white yak-tail-decorated banner to conduct (the troops); he said: "Far are ye come, men of the western lands!"

2. (obsolete) yak

   • 獸則𤛑旄貘犛，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜題，窮奇象犀。 [MSC, trad.]
     兽则𤛑旄貘牦，沈牛麈麋，赤首圜题，穷奇象犀。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 司馬相如 (Sima Xiangru) 《上林賦》 "Rhapsody on the Imperial Park", in 《史記》 Records of the Grand Historian. Translated based on Knechtges's (2008) version

     Shòu zé yóng máo mò máo/lí, shěnniú zhǔmí, chìshǒu yuántí, qióngqí xiàng xī. [Pinyin]

     Its animals are: The zebus, hairy yaks, pandas, grunting yaks, plunging bulls, elaphures; red-headed, round-hoofed; extreme extraordinaire, elephants, and rhinoceroses.

Compounds

• 干旄
• 擁旄 / 拥旄
• 旄丘
• 旄倪
• 旄牛
• 旄鉞 / 旄钺
• 旄頭 / 旄头
• 旄騎 / 旄骑
• 旌旄
• 白旄 (báimáo)
• 白旄黃鉞 / 白旄黄钺 (báimáo huángyuè)
• 節旄 / 节旄
• 羽旄
• 騂旄 / 骍旄

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 旄 – see 耄 (“very old; senile; befuddled; confused; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 耄).

References

• “旄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

旄

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pennant/banner with a long-haired yak tail attached
2. yak tail
3. yak

Readings

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: はたかざり (hatakazari)、おいぼれ (oibore)

Korean

Hanja

旄 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旄: Hán Nôm readings: mao

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References

• Nom Foundation