Modu Chanyu
Name

His name is reconstructed as * mǝk-tuən in Later Han Chinese and mək-twən in Middle Chinese. The name's Old Chinese pronunciation might have represented the pronunciation of the foreign word *baɣtur, a relative of the later attested Central Eurasian culture word baɣatur "hero". According to Gerard Clauson, bağatur, transcribed by Chinese with -n for foreign -r, was by origin almost certainly a " Hunnic " (Xiongnu) proper name.

His name was also read as MC mək-tuən (墨頓; following Sima Zhen 's commentary on Shiji) and MC mək-duok (墨毒; following Song Qi 's commentary on Hanshu), the latter of which, according to Pulleyblank (1999), "does not make sense" phonologically.
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