昊

昊	U+660A, 昊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-660A

← 昉
[U+6609]

CJK Unified Ideographs

昋 →
[U+660B]

Translingual

Han character

昊 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日一大 (AMK), four-corner 6043₀, composition ⿱日天)

Derived characters

𮯽, 淏, 䆨, 𢮚, 𰞮, 𨛴, 𪪙, 𬝫, 𱵸

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13799
Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 14
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1488, character 8
Unihan data for U+660A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昊

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
昊	*ɡuːʔ
顥	*ɡuːʔ
灝	ɡuːʔ, kuːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡuːʔ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 夰 (OC *kuːʔ, *ɡuːʔ, “release”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hào (hao⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hor⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ghau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hào
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hào
  - Wade–Giles: hao⁴
  - Yale: hàu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
  - Palladius: хао (xao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hou⁶
  - Yale: houh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: hou⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hor⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hō̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒ¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hor⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒ²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
  - Tâi-lô: hō
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ho²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ho³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ghau
  - MiniDict: ghau^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhau
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦɔ²³/

Middle Chinese: hawX

Rime
Character	昊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡老切
Baxter	hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaw^X/
Li Rong	/ɣɑu^X/
Wang Li	/ɣɑu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑu^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	昊
Reading #	1/1
No.	4922
Phonetic component
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晧
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːʔ/

Definitions

昊

vastness (of the sky)
a surname

Compounds

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “昊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 87.

Japanese

Kanji

昊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
Kun: そら (sora, 昊)
Nanori: ひろし (hiroshi)

Korean

Hanja

昊 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昊: Hán Nôm readings: hạo

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References

Nom Foundation