互

See also: 亙

互	U+4E92, 互 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E92

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order

互 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一女弓一 (MVNM), four-corner 1010₇, composition ⿱一彑)

Additional Derived Characters

simp. and trad.		互
alternative forms		弖

Historical forms of the character 互
Small seal script s03386 s03387 Transcribed ancient scripts L20734 L20735 L20736
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)

Ideogram (指事): 牙 and a distinguishing mark. Early texts often used 互 and 牙 interchangeably.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hù
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hù
  - Wade–Giles: hu⁴
  - Yale: hù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huh
  - Palladius: ху (xu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wu⁶
  - Yale: wuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu
  - Hakka Romanization System: fu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: fu¹
  - Sinological IPA: /fu⁴⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: hô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hō
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔu¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔu²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō͘
  - Tâi-lô: hōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ho
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hu⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³⁵/
- (Leizhou)
  - Leizhou Pinyin: hu⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /hu³³/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	互
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ hu^H ›
Old Chinese	/*m-qˁaʔ-s/
English	intertwining
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.

互

mutually; reciprocally
- 荒路曖交通，鷄犬互鳴吠 [MSC, trad.]
  荒路暧交通，鸡犬互鸣吠 [MSC, simp.]
  From: Tao Yuanming The Peach Blossom Spring (桃花源記) (trans. Herbert Allen Giles)
  huāng lù ài jiāotōng, jī quǎn hù míng fèi [Pinyin]
  Highways of traffic ran north and south; sounds of crowing cocks and barking dogs were heard around.
mutual
crisscrossing; intertwining
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 䇘 (hù, “a tool to wind up cord”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 枑 (hù, “wooden rack”)
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) error; mistake
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) gate
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) crustacean
a surname

互 (hù) usually modifies a verb of one syllable, while its negative 互不 usually modifies a verb of two.