孟母

Chinese

		first month; eldest brother; surname	female; mother
simp. and trad. (孟母)		孟	母

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Mèngmǔ

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁶ mou⁵
Min Nan (POJ): Bēng-bú

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Mèngmǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˋ ㄇㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Mèngmǔ
  - Wade–Giles: Mêng⁴-mu³
  - Yale: Mèng-mǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Menqmuu
  - Palladius: Мэнму (Mɛnmu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: maang⁶ mou⁵
  - Yale: maahng móuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁶ mou⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mang⁶ mou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ²² mou̯¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bēng-bú
  - Tâi-lô: Bīng-bú
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bexngbuo
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /mˠæŋH məuX/

Rime
Character	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	莫更切	莫厚切
Baxter	maengH	muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋ^H/	/məu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋ^H/	/məu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋ^H/	/məu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋ^H/	/məw^X/
Li Rong	/mɐŋ^H/	/mu^X/
Wang Li	/mɐŋ^H/	/məu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɐŋ^H/	/mə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mèng	mǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang⁶	mau⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤraŋ-s məʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋs mɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèng	mǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ mæng^H ›	‹ muw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁraŋ-s/	/məʔ/ (? or mˁoʔ)
English	eldest, great	mother
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	孟	母
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9152	9288
Phonetic component	皿	母
Rime group	陽	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	孟	母
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋs/	/*mɯʔ/

Proper noun

孟母

mother of Mencius

Derived terms

孟母三遷／孟母三迁 (mèngmǔsānqiān)
孟母擇鄰／孟母择邻

孟母斷織／孟母断织

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