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拇

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拇

  • mǔ (mu³) Mandarin, Pinyin
  • ㄇㄨˇ Mandarin, Bopomofo
  • mou⁵ Cantonese, Jyutping
  • bió Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bó͘ Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bó Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • bú Min Nan, Hokkien, Phak fa su
  • ¹mu Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • ¹m Wu, Shanghai, Wugniu
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Pinyin
  • ㄇㄨˇ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Bopomofo
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Tongyong Pinyin
  • mu³ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Wade–Giles
  • mǔ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Yale
  • muu Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Gwoyeu Romatsyh
  • му Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Cyrillic
  • /mu²¹⁴/ Mandarin, Standard Chinese, Sinological IPA
  • mou⁵ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • móuh Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • /mou̯¹³/ Cantonese, Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou
  • bió Min Nan, Hokkien, Quanzhou
  • bioir Min Nan, Hokkien, Quanzhou
  • /bi̯o⁵⁵⁴/ Min Nan, Hokkien, Quanzhou
  • bó͘ Min Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen
  • bóo Min Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen
  • bor Min Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen
  • /bɔ⁵³/ Min Nan, Hokkien, Xiamen

Where it comes from

形聲漢字（上古 *mɯʔ）：意符 扌 + 聲符 母 (上古 *mɯʔ) 。

漢藏語系；對照原始彝語 *C-ma³ (“拇指”) (Schuessler, 2007)，以及緬甸語 မ (ma.，“主要；陰性後綴”)。

可能與母 (上古 *mɯʔ, “母親”)相關；對照原始彝語 *C-ma³ (“陰性後綴”)、*ʔəC-ma³ (“母親”)、壯語 mehfwngz (“拇指”)，衍生自meh (“母親”)。

釋義 𧿹

  1. anatomy 手腳的大指

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {拇},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/zh/%E6%8B%87},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}