The traditional Chinese character for mu is mu.
1. Brief description
1. Mu, a common standard Chinese character, a first-level character, pronounced mǔ, first seen in bronze inscriptions. Its original meaning refers to the Chinese land area unit, the general name for the city mu. "Poetry·Xiaoya·Xinnanshan": "My territory is my territory, and my acres are in the south and east." It is extended to the field ridge, which means the high place in the field. "Han Feizi·Shuodu": "I also work hard to cultivate acres of land." It generally refers to farmland and fields. Except, mother and "mother" share the same holiday.
2. "The Book of Weizi's Fate": "The Book of the Tang Dynasty obtains the crops, and the same love comes from different mothers." is the root; the meaning of the root.
2. Etymological evolution
1. "Mu" is a phonetic character. From the field, every sound. The structure of Xiaozhuan script is the same as that of bronze inscriptions, and later regular scripts were written as "箮". Qin's bamboo slips are added with "Jiu", and the two are superimposed sound symbols. "Each", "Jiu" and "Jiu" belong to the same department. The character "you" was changed into "十" in the small seal script or style of "Shuowen", so the character "畞" was formed.
2. In Xiaozhuan or Chinese style of "Shuowen", write "十" into one dot and one horizontal line and move the word "田" to the top to become the word "mu". After removing the sound symbol "jiu" of "mu", the simplified character "mu" is formed. In Han Li, "夂" is a corruption of "Jiu". In addition to "箮", "畕" and "木", this character also has variants such as "畆" and "畒".
3. Kangxi Dictionary
1. "Tang Yun" should not be thickly cut. "Ji Yun" and "Yun Hui" should not be cut later. ?Make a sound. "Sima Law": Six feet is a step, and a hundred steps is an acre. Taixiao metric system: two hundred and forty steps are equal to an acre. Song Chengyi said: The ancient one hundred acres was only the forty acres today, and the one hundred acres today is the two hundred and fifty acres in ancient times. "Book·Pangeng" The lazy farmers are at ease, not working hard, and not willing to accept the land.
2. "Poetry·Xiaoya": Its acres are in the south and east. Zhu Note: mu, ridge. Also named Qiu. "Erya·Shidi": Ru Mu, Mu Qiu. Note: Qiuyoulong boundary is like an acre of land. "Explanation of Names": Muqiu, a hilly body fills an acre of land. "Poetry·Xiaoya": The way of Yangyuan is in Muqiu. Biography: Muqiu, Qiu name.
3. Also a place name. "Zuo Zhuan·Huan 2nd Year": The wife of the Marquis of Jin Dynasty, Jiang, gave birth to a prince by Tiao Zhizhi, and named him Qiu. His younger brother lived on a thousand acres of land and was destined to become a master. Note: There is land in the south of Xiu County on the boundary of Xihe, named Qianmu.