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U+547C, 呼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-547C

[U+547B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+547D]

U+323A, ㈺
PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH CALL

[U+3239]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+323B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 62049, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3471
  • Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 605, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+547C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰaː): semantic (mouth) + phonetic (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔaːw (to shout, cry out). Cognate with Burmese အော် (au, to shout, berate), as well as with the following Sinitic words (STEDT):

  • (“to make noise”)
  • (“to howl, bawl”)
  • (OC *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos, “to breathe on, yawn, roar”)
  • (OC *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls, “to shout, cry out”)

Pronunciation 1


Note:
  • hù - literary;
  • kŭ - vernacular.
Note:
  • ho͘ - literary;
  • kho͘ - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (32)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter xu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/huo/
Pan
Wuyun
/huo/
Shao
Rongfen
/xo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hɔ/
Li
Rong
/xo/
Wang
Li
/xu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/xuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ xu › ‹ xuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰˁa/ /*qʰˁa-s/
English call out, shout call out, shout

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5181
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰaː/

Definitions

  1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
  2. to shout; to yell
  3. to call (someone); to address
  4. (onomatopoeia, of wind) howling
  5. (Chinese phonetics) medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of to breathe out): ()

Compounds

Pronunciation 2


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of  / 𰵦 (xiào, to shout)

Pronunciation 3


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (sigh (expression of fatigue))

Pronunciation 4


Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Expression of anger.

Pronunciation 5


Definitions

  1. (historical dictionaries only) alternative form of (xià, crack; rift)

Japanese

Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to call
  2. to call out to
  3. to invite

Readings

  • Go-on: (ku)
  • Kan-on: (ko, Jōyō)
  • Kun: よぶ (yobu, 呼ぶ, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term

Grade: 6
kan'on

From Middle Chinese (MC xu).

Pronunciation

Affix

() • (ko

  1. to breathe out, to exhale, to sigh
  2. to shout, to yell
  3. to call (someone), to address

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC xu). Recorded as Middle Korean (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Wikisource

(eumhun 부를 (bureul ho))

  1. hanja form? of (to call; to shout)
  2. hanja form? of (to exhale; to breathe out)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: , , hao, hào

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