戊

See also: 戍 and 戌

戊	U+620A, 戊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-620A

← 戉
[U+6209]

CJK Unified Ideographs

戋 →
[U+620B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

戊 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹 (IH), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿰丿戈)

Derived characters

𡶙, 𢏌, 㧔, 𣳡, 𭸀, 𣆈, 𭩤, 𣬽, 𤇦, 𭷂, 𭸿, 𮁥, 𪾤, 𥍥, 𬗇, 𮊥, 𧉦, 䛋, 龯(𨱆), 𡏜, 𮨹, 𬵇, 𪌙, 𪉠, 𪗥, 𬏡
戌, 戍, 成, 𢦓, 𢦡, 𢘱, 𢦲, 咸, 𢦩, 𤬹, 戚, 𢦽, 𭑿, 戚, 𮍏, 𢧒, 𤋆, 𢧦, 𩒃, 𫨵, 𢧓, 𡶔, 茂, 𫁸, 𩂟, 𫈼, 𩬕

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11532
Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1397, character 4
Unihan data for U+620A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		戊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
茂	*mus
戊	*mus

Pictogram (象形) : A halberd.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): wu⁴
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vu
Eastern Min (BUC): muô
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bō͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): bhou⁷
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶wu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wù
  - Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wù
  - Wade–Giles: wu⁴
  - Yale: wù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
  - Palladius: у (u)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: wu⁴
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: u
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu²¹³/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mou⁶
  - Yale: mouh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu
  - Hakka Romanization System: vu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /vu⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: muô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /muɔ²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
  - Tâi-lô: bōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhou⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bōu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /bou¹¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶wu
  - MiniDict: wu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦu²³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 戊
Mandarin	Beijing	/u⁵¹/
	Harbin	/u⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/u⁵³/
	Jinan	/u⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/vu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/u⁵³/
	Xi'an	/vu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/v̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/vu⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/vu¹³/
	Ürümqi
	Wuhan	/u³⁵/
	Chengdu	/u¹³/
	Guiyang	/u²¹³/
	Kunming	/u²¹²/
	Nanjing	/u⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/u⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/vu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦu²³/
	Suzhou	/vu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/møy²²/
Hui	Shexian	/u²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/u¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/u⁵⁵/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/u⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/u²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/vu⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/vu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mou²²/
	Nanning	/mu²²/
	Hong Kong	/mou²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/bɔ²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/muɔ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/mu⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/bou³¹/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/vu³³/

Middle Chinese: muwH

Rime
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫候切
Baxter	muwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/məu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/məu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məw^H/
Li Rong	/mu^H/
Wang Li	/məu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)uʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù
Middle Chinese	‹ muw^H ›
Old Chinese	/m(r)uʔ-s/ (~ m(r)uʔ)
English	5th heavenly stem
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	戊
Reading #	1/1
No.	13226
Phonetic component	戊
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/
Notes	朱芳圃雲劉之初文

Definitions

戊

the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

Coordinate terms

(Chinese heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁 (dīng), 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}

Compounds

Descendants

→ Zhuang: fouh

References

(Min Nan) “Entry #1657”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji

戊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
Kun: つちのえ (tsuchinoe, 戊)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
戊
ぼ Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

戊

Wikipedia ^ja

From Middle Chinese 戊 (muw^H).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ぼ [bóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [bo̞]

Proper noun

戊(ぼ) • (Bo)

the fifth of the ten heavenly stems
Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
戊
つちのえ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

土 (Tsuchi, “Earth”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) つちのえ [tsùchínóꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥t͡ɕino̞e̞]

Proper noun

戊(つちのえ) • (Tsuchinoe)

the fifth of the ten heavenly stems
Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Korean

Hanja

戊 (eumhun 다섯째 천간 무 (daseotjjae cheon'gan mu))

hanja form^? of 무 (“fifth heavenly stem”)

Vietnamese

Han character

戊: Hán Nôm readings: mậu, mồ

chữ Hán form of Mậu (“fifth of the ten heavenly stems”).
Hypernyms: 天干, 十干

Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Compounds