無何

Chinese

		not have	carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which
trad. (無何)		無	何
simp. (无何)		无	何

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wúhé

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴ ho⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wúhé
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wúhé
    • Wade–Giles: wu²-ho²
    • Yale: wú-hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuher
    • Palladius: ухэ (uxɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³⁵ xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴ ho⁴
    • Yale: mòuh hòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴ ho⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴ ho⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ hɔː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mju ha

Rime
Character	無	何
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	武夫切	胡歌切
Baxter	mju	ha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨo/	/ɦɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/mio/	/ɦɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/mio/	/ɣɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆/	/ɦa/
Li Rong	/mio/	/ɣɑ/
Wang Li	/mĭu/	/ɣɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯u/	/ɣɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wú	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4	ho4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ma  [ɡ]ˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ma  ɡaːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	無	何
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú	hé
Middle Chinese	‹ mju ›	‹ ha ›
Old Chinese	/*ma/	/*[ɡ]ˁaj/
English	not have	what
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	無	何
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	13117	7458
Phonetic component	無	可
Rime group	魚	歌
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	無	何
Old Chinese	/*ma/	/*ɡaːl/

Adverb

無何

1. nothing
2. soon

Noun

無何

1. Short for 無何有之鄉／无何有之乡 (wúhéyǒuzhīxiāng).