敄

敄 U+6544, 敄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6544 ← 敃 [U+6543] CJK Unified Ideographs 故 → [U+6545]

Translingual

Han character

敄 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹人大 (NHOK), composition ⿰矛攵)

Descendants

• 㮘, 𧎄, 𨩺, 務, 堥, 婺, 嵍, 㡔, 愗, 暓, 楘, 𤋄, 瞀, 䋷, 𦎦, 蝥, 䜼, 𨡭, 鍪, 䨁, 鞪, 鶩(鹜), 䱯, 騖(骛), 䓮, 霚, 𩭾, 霿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 469, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13160
• Dae Jaweon: page 820, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1455, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6544

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moʔ, *mos) : phonetic 矛 (OC *mu) + semantic 攵 (“action”).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 敄 – see 務 (“to be engaged in; to be devoted to; to seek; to pursue; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 務).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 敄 – see 劺. (This character is a variant form of 劺).