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Kanji Detail for 莫 - "vast"

莫

  • Meaning

    莫 means "vast." Also associated with dusk, none.

    1. Dusk - Evening; twilight; late.

    2. None - Nothing; do not.

    3. Vast - Wide; boundless; immense.

  • Words using 莫

    • 莫大 ばくだい Listen vast; huge; immense

  • Four-character idioms with 莫

    • 秋風落莫 しゅうふうらくばく Listen forlorn and helpless; lonely and desolate

  • Tattoo check: 莫

    • Verified meaning: vast
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さだむ, ばく, ひろし, まく)
    • Also carries these associations: dusk, none

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 莫

    Given names 莫(さだむ)Listen 莫(ばく)Listen 莫(ひろし)Listen

    Surnames 莫(まく)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    must not; do not; be not

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    do not, is not, can not; negative

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Mo

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cannot; do not; is not; negative

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    The meaning of absolutely none. Such as saying 莫不震懼 (none were not terrified). Meaning no one is an exception. | Do not. A prohibitive word. Such as saying 君莫舞 (Don't dance, my lord) and the like. | 廣莫. | A vast and distant appearance. Also written as 漠. | Interchangeable with 幕. 幕府 (government office) was anciently also written as 莫府. | Interchangeable with 暮 in 日暮 (sunset/dusk).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    baku(バク) バク

    bo(ボ) ボ

    maku(マク) マク

    mo(モ) モ

    nai(ナイ) ナイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kure(くれ) くれ

    naka.re(なかれ) なかれ

    nashi(なし) なし

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    dusk none vast lonely sad quiet negative nothingness negation prohibition ban empty endless evening expansive forbidden great huge large negate null prohibited

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