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モウ//    ボウ//    ミョウ//    かしら////    BOU//    MYOU//    kashira//

chief;  beginning

Radical: (child).   Strokes: 8画.   Elements: 皿子.   Pinyin: mèng.   Hangul:  [maeng]  [mang].   Nanori: たけし / たけ / はる / はじめ / つとむ / おさ / はいtakeshi / take / haru / hajime / tsutomu / osa / hai.

Jinmeiyō Kanji.   JLPT N1.

Example compounds:
モウもうしmōshi】Mencius (Meng Zi) (371-289BCE); the Discourses of Mencius - one of the Four Books
こうもうkōmō】Confucius and Mencius
もうかmōka】beginning of summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
Codepoints and classification codes:
5b5fUnicode
44-50JIS X 0208
2-3-5SKIP
2c5.1TKD
1710.7Four Corner
Dictionary indices:
1269Classic Nelson
1291The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
2220New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
1412Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
2872Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
667Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
6960Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 3 p. 833
2049Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
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