Chinese Character Wiki
某

mǒu

certain thing or person

Depicts a sweet (甘) fruit in a tree (木). Based on the original meaning "plum", now written as 梅. The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components
甘 iconic component

甘  Iconic component

gān

  

sweetness

木 iconic component

木  Iconic component

mù

  

tree

Evolution

某 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
某 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
某 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
某 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

某  

mǒu

certain thing or person; some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such

Most common words with 某
Freq.
Word
Meaning

某

some

某些

some

某种

some kind (of)

某人

someone

某某

so-and-so

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (3 verified)

谋 謀 媒 煤

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*məʔ

muwX

mǒu

so and so; a certain


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 66.1381% of movies

627th most common character in movies

517th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67D0

Shuowen

“某，酸果也。从木，从甘，闕。槑，古文某从口。”


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