Chinese Character Wiki
默

mò

silent

Phonosemantic compound. 黑 represents the sound and 犬 represents the meaning.

Components
黑 sound component

黑  Sound component

hēi

  

black

犬 meaning component

犬  Meaning component

quǎn

  

dog

Dogs are not able to speak.

Evolution

默 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
默 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
默 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

默  

mò

silent; quiet, still; dark; to write from memory

Most common words with 默
Freq.
Word
Meaning

沉默

taciturn

幽默

humorous

默默

in silence

默契

rapport

默

silent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mlɯːɡ

mək̚

mò

silent


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 27.0062% of movies

1134th most common character in movies

1031st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9ED8

Shuowen

“默，犬暫逐人也。从犬，黑聲。讀若墨。”


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