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おす U+7261, 牡
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7261

[U+7260]
CJK Unified Ideographs ろう
[U+7262]

Translingual

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Han character

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おす (Kangxi radical 93, うし+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input たけしゅ (HQG), four-corner 24510, composition うし)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1801, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7261

Chinese

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おす

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい会意かいい) : うし (cattle) + . Various explanations exist, some propose 丄 (here unrelated to うえ) depicts a penis to represent “male”. Later 丄 came to be written . See also the etymology of this character.

Etymology

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Austroasiatic (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟm(oo)l (male) (whence Khmer ឈ្មោល (chmool, to be male)), Old Mon jmūr ~ jmur (male (elephant)), Proto-Waic *(k)mɔj ((wild) ox; buffalo), Proto-Vietic *mɔːlʔ (person; human being) (whence Vietnamese mọi (savage; barbarian), Muong mõl (human being)).

An oracle bone graph for this word shows a vertical stick on a horizontal ground, possibly because it had been intended for an obsolete homophone cognate with Proto-Vietic *c-mɔːlʔ (digging stick), which alongside "male" may derive from a stem represented in Old Khmer cval (to enter; to penetrate; (of animals) to copulate), Khmu [script needed] (cmɔɔl, to plant (rice) with a digging stick), [script needed] (crmɔɔl, digging stick) (ibid.; Ferlus, 1987). Schuessler (2007) further proposes a relationship with うね (OC *mɯʔ, “cropland; mu (a Chinese measuring unit for area)”) (ibid.); see there for more.

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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おす

  1. (obsolete) male of animals synonyms, antonyms ▲quotations ▼
    Synonyms: ゆう (xióng), おおやけ (gōng)
    Antonym: めす (pìn)
  2. (obsolete) male genitals
  3. (obsolete) bolt of door
  4. (obsolete) hill; hump
  5. Used in 牡蠣かき牡蛎かき (mǔlì, “oyster”).

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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おす

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. male
  2. oyster

Readings

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  • Go-on: (mu) (mo)
  • Kan-on: ぼう ()
  • Kan’yō-on: (bo)
  • Kun: おす (osu, おす) (o, おす)おん (on, おす)

Etymology

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Kanji in this term
おす
おす
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of おす – see the following entry.
ゆうおすS
[noun] a male (plant or animal)
Alternative spelling
オス
(This term, おす, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja

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おす (mo) (hangeul , revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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おす: Hán Nôm readings: mẫu

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