祜

祜	U+795C, 祜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-795C

← 祛
[U+795B]

CJK Unified Ideographs

祝 →
[U+795D]

Translingual

Han character

祜 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火十口 (IFJR), four-corner 3426₀, composition ⿰礻古)

Derived characters

𫳫

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 27
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24671
Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2390, character 24
Unihan data for U+795C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		祜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
箇	*kaːls
個	*kaːls
居	kɯ, kas
橭	kaː, kʰaː
嫴	*kaː
姑	*kaː
辜	*kaː
酤	kaː, kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄	*kaː
鴣	*kaː
沽	kaː, kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬	kaː, kaːʔ
古	*kaːʔ
罟	*kaːʔ
估	*kaːʔ
鈷	*kaːʔ
詁	*kaːʔ
牯	*kaːʔ
故	*kaːs
固	*kaːs
稒	*kaːɡs
痼	*kaːɡs
錮	*kaːɡs
鯝	*kaːɡs
棝	*kaːɡs
凅	*kaːɡs
枯	*kʰaː
軲	*kʰaː
跍	*kʰaː
骷	*kʰaː
苦	kʰaːʔ, kʰaːs
葫	qʰaː, ɡaː
餬	*ɡaː
瑚	*ɡaː
湖	*ɡaː
鶘	*ɡaː
猢	*ɡaː
醐	*ɡaː
糊	*ɡaː
箶	*ɡaː
蝴	*ɡaː
胡	*ɡaː
瓳	*ɡaː
怙	*ɡaːʔ
祜	*ɡaːʔ
岵	*ɡaːʔ
婟	ɡaːʔ, ɡaːɡs
楛	*ɡaːʔ
据	*ka
裾	*ka
琚	*ka
椐	ka, kas, *kʰa
鶋	*ka
蜛	*ka
崌	*ka
涺	*ka
腒	ka, ɡa
鋸	*kas
倨	*kas
踞	*kas
涸	*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡaːʔ): semantic 礻 (“divine”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hù (hu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶ / wu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō͘ / hǒ͘

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 / wu²
  - Yale: wuh / wú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶ / wu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶ / wu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/, /wuː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō͘
  - Tâi-lô: hōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ho
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒ͘
  - Tâi-lô: hǒo
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²²/

Middle Chinese: huX

Rime
Character	祜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	侯古切
Baxter	huX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣo^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɔ^X/
Li Rong	/ɣo^X/
Wang Li	/ɣu^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣuo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ hu^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaʔ/
English	blessing
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	祜
Reading #	1/1
No.	4258
Phonetic component	古
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戸
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːʔ/

Definitions

祜

favor from heaven; blessing

Synonyms

福 (fú), 祝福 (zhùfú), 祚 (zuò)

Compounds

拉祜 (Lāhù)
拉祜族 (Lāhùzú)
拉祜語 / 拉祜语 (Lāhùyǔ)
薄祜

References

“祜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

祜

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

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Go-on: ご (go)
Kan-on: こ (ko)
Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祜い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, 祜ひ, historical)}
Nanori: さち (sachi)

Usage notes

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ko₁⟩ in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).

Compounds

多祜(たこ)の浦(うら) (Tako-no-ura)

Korean

Hanja

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

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