唖

See also: 啞

唖	U+5516, 唖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5516

← 唕
[U+5515]

CJK Unified Ideographs

唗 →
[U+5517]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	啞
Shinjitai (extended)	唖
Simplified	哑

Han character

唖 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口一中一 (RMLM) or 難口一中一 (XRMLM), composition ⿰口亜)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 193, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3743
Dae Jaweon: page 413, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 626, character 10
Unihan data for U+5516

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 啞 (亞 → 亜).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 唖 – see 啞 (“mute; dumb; speechless; without sound; etc.”). (This character is the former (1935–1936) ROC simplified, former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, and variant form of 啞).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00604-001

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	唖
Print standard	啞

Kanji

唖

(Hyōgai kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 啞)

Extended shinjitai form of 啞: mute, dumb

Readings

From Middle Chinese 啞 (MC 'aeX); compare Mandarin 啞 / 哑 (yǎ):

Go-on: え (e)
Kan-on: あ (a)

From Middle Chinese 啞 (MC 'aeH); compare Mandarin 啞 / 哑 (yā):

Go-on: え (e)
Kan-on: あ (a)

From Middle Chinese 啞 (MC 'eak); compare Mandarin 啞 / 哑 (è):

Go-on: やく (yaku)
Kan-on: あく (aku)

From native Japanese roots:

Kun: おし (oshi, 唖)

Usage notes

This is one of the 22 widely used extended shinjitai (簡(かん)易(い)慣(かん)用(よう)字(じ)体(たい) (kan'i kan'yō jitai)).

Compounds

唖(あく)唖(あく)／啞(あく)啞(あく) (akuaku)
唖(あく)然(ぜん)／啞(あく)然(ぜん) (akuzen)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
唖
あ Hyōgai
kan'on

Alternative spelling
啞 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 啞 (MC 'aeX).

The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) あ [áꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
IPA^(key): [a̠]

Noun

唖(あ) • (a)

muteness; dumbness

Affix

唖(あ) • (a)

mute, dumb

Derived terms

mute, dumb

唖(あ)唖(あ)／啞(あ)啞(あ) (ā)
唖(あ)咽(えつ)／啞(あ)咽(えつ) (aetsu)
唖(あ)呕(おう)／啞(あ)嘔(おう) (aō)
唖(あ)子(し)／啞(あ)子(し) (ashi)
唖(あ)者(しゃ)／啞(あ)者(しゃ) (asha, “a mute person”)
唖(あ)然(ぜん)／啞(あ)然(ぜん) (azen, “dumbfounded, speechless”)
唖(あ)咤(た)／啞(あ)咤(た) (ata)
唖(あ)鈴(れい)／啞(あ)鈴(れい) (arei, “dumbbell”)
盲(もう)唖(あ)／盲(もう)啞(あ) (mōa, “blind and deaf-mute”)
聾(ろう)唖(あ)／聾(ろう)啞(あ) (rōa, “deafness, deaf-mute”)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 唖 – see the following entry.

【おし】	[noun] muteness (the inability to speak) [noun] a mute person

(This term, 唖, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

唖 • (a) (hangeul 아, revised a, McCune–Reischauer a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

唖: Hán Việt readings: á, ạ, ớ

Variant of 啞, see there for more details.

[DJR-1] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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