墨

墨 U+58A8, 墨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58A8 ← 墧 [U+58A7] CJK Unified Ideographs 墩 → [U+58A9]

墨 U+FA3A, 墨 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA3A ← 塀 [U+FA39] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 層 → [U+FA3B]

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Stroke order (Japan)

墨 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+12 in Chinese, 土+11 in Japanese, 15 strokes in Chinese, 14 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 田土火土 (WGFG), four-corner 6010₄, composition ⿱黑土(GTHKV) or ⿱黒土(J))

• 嚜 濹 𣞪 爅 𦢓 䁼 纆(𬙊) 𦪷 䘃 㕓 癦

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 238, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5469
• Dae Jaweon: page 478, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 487, character 3
• Unihan data for U+58A8

• Unihan data for U+FA3A

simp. and trad.		墨

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mlɯːɡ) : phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 土 (“soil”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-maŋ ~ s-mak. Cognate with 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ, “black”).

墨

1. Chinese ink or ink in general

   磨墨  ―  mó mò  ―  to grind an inkstick (against an inkstone)

2. black; ink-coloured; dark
3. (historical) to tattoo the face (e.g. as a punishment in Ancient China)
4. (figurative) to embezzle
5. (figurative) someone's poetry, essays, handwriting, or paintings
6. (figurative) learning; knowledge
7. Short for 墨家 (Mòjiā, “Mohism”).
8. Short for 墨西哥 (Mòxīgē, “Mexico”).
9. a surname

   墨翟  ―  Mò Dí  ―  Mo Di (full name of Mozi)

10. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 癦 (“mole; nevus; pigmented spot on the skin”)

• → Buryat: бэхэ (bexe, “ink”)
• → Indonesian: bak
• → Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ (bak)
• → Khmer: មឹក (mɨk, “squid; ink”)
• → Korean: 먹 (meok)
• → Lao: ມຶກ (mưk, “ink; black”), ໝຶກ (mưk, “sepia from cuttlefish; ink; black”)
• → Mongolian: бэх (bex, “ink”)
• → Sogdian: 𐼺𐼸𐼰 (mkʾ /⁠*makā⁠/, “ink”)
• → Thai: หมึก (mʉ̀k, “ink”), ปลาหมึก (bplaa-mʉ̀k, “cuttlefish”)
• → Vietnamese: mực (“cuttlefish; ink”)

墨

1. Only used in 墨杘.

墨

1. to slander

• “墨”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	墨
Kyūjitai [1]	墨 墨 or 墨+︀?
	墨󠄀 墨+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	墨󠄃 墨+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 墨)

1. ink, inkstick
2. Mexico

• Go-on: もく (moku)
• Kan-on: ぼく (boku, Jōyō)
• Kun: すみ (sumi, 墨, Jōyō)、くろい (kuroi, 墨い)^{←くろし (kurosi, 墨し, historical)}
• Nanori: すみ (sumi)

• 墨客
• 墨(ぼく)汁(じゅう) (bokujū)
• 墨(すみ)絵(え) (sumie)

Kanji in this term
墨
すみ Grade: S
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
墨 (kyūjitai)

For pronunciation and definitions of 墨 – see the following entry.

【すみ】 [noun] ink [noun] (specifically) India ink

(This term, 墨, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

墨 (eumhun 먹 묵 (meok muk))

1. hanja form^? of 묵 (“ink”)

墨 (eumhun 교활할 미 (gyohwalhal mi))

1. hanja form^? of 미 (“sly, cunning”)

(Jōyō kanji)

墨(っふぃ) (ffï) 

1. ink

(Jōyō kanji)

墨(すぃみ) (sïmi) 

1. ink

墨: Hán Nôm readings: mặc, mực, mức

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