滸

See also: 浒

滸	U+6EF8, 滸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EF8

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[U+6EF7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

滹 →
[U+6EF9]

Translingual

Han character

滸 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水卜口十 (EYRJ), four-corner 3814₀, composition ⿰氵許)

riverbank, shore

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 644, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18089
Dae Jaweon: page 1051, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1727, character 5
Unihan data for U+6EF8

Chinese

trad.		滸
simp.		浒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 滸
Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	ŋaʔ, ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hŋaːʔ): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 許 (OC *hŋaʔ).

Etymology

The two pronunciations have the same etymology but later split into two different pronunciations, with pronunciation 2 becoming specific for place names.

Folk etymology relates the second pronunciation to a legend, in which Qianlong Emperor mispronounced this character using the 有邊讀邊 / 有边读边 (yǒu biān dú biān) when he visited Xushuguan. As a result, people followed the pronunciation by the emperor.

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hǔ (hu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wu² / fu²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hou³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hó͘
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵hu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hǔ
  - Wade–Giles: hu³
  - Yale: hǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huu
  - Palladius: ху (xu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: wu² / fu²
  - Yale: wú / fú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wu² / fu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: wu² / fu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː³⁵/, /fuː³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hô
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔu⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hou³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔu³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó͘
  - Tâi-lô: hóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hor
  - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /hɔ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵hu
  - MiniDict: hu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²hu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /hu³⁴/

Middle Chinese: xuX

Rime
Character	滸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼古切
Baxter	xuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/huo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/xo^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɔ^X/
Li Rong	/xo^X/
Wang Li	/xu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤaʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*hŋaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	滸	滸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hǔ	hǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ xu^X ›	‹ xu^X ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁaʔ/	/*qʰˁaʔ/
English	river bank	滸滸 ~ 許許 ~ 所所 sound of hewing wood
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	滸
Reading #	1/1
No.	13168
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	虎
Old Chinese	/*hŋaːʔ/
Notes	說文作汻

Definitions

滸

water’s edge, waterside

Compounds

水滸傳 / 水浒传 (Shuǐhǔzhuàn)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xǔ (xu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi²
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hy³
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵shiu

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
  - Wade–Giles: hsü³
  - Yale: syǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
  - Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: heoi²
  - Yale: héui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoey²
  - Guangdong Romanization: hêu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hy³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: hṳ̂
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: hy³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy³³²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵shiu
  - MiniDict: shiu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²xy
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕy³⁴/

Definitions

滸

Used in place names.

Compounds

滸墅關 / 浒墅关 (Xǔshùguān)
滸浦 / 浒浦
滸灣 / 浒湾

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “浒”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 268.