móu

plan, scheme

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

某 sound component

  Sound component

mǒu

  

certain thing or person

Evolution

謀 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
謀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謀 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

móu

plan, scheme; stratagem; to plan; to seek; scheme

Most common words with 謀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谋杀

to murder

阴谋

plot

to plan

谋杀案

murder case

谋求

to seek

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mə

mjuw

móu

plan (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 40.1249% of movies

794th most common character in movies

989th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B00

Shuowen

“謀,慮難曰謀。从言,某聲。古文謀,亦古文。”


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