窩

See also: 窝
窩 U+7AA9, 窩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AA9
← 窨
[U+7AA8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 窪 →
[U+7AAA]

Translingual

Han character

窩 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金月月口 (JCBBR), four-corner 30227, composition ⿱穴咼)

Derived characters

  • 𡁮, 𭒨

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 866, character 60
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2733, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7AA9

Chinese

trad. 窩
simp. 窝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
碢 *l'oːl
腡 *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過 *kloːl, *kloːls
渦 *kloːl, *qloːl
鍋 *kloːl
楇 *kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑 *kloːl
緺 *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝 *kloːl
濄 *kloːl, *qloːl
鐹 *kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖 *kʰloːl
簻 *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍 *ɡloːlʔ
窩 *qloːl
萵 *qloːl
檛 *kr'oːl
膼 *kr'oːl
蝸 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎 *kroːlʔ
剮 *kroːlʔ
諣 *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄 *kʷroːl
咼 *kʰʷroːl
喎 *kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qloːl): semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 窩
Mandarin Beijing /uo⁵⁵/
Harbin /uo⁴⁴/
/uo⁵³/ 地名
Tianjin /uo²¹/
Jinan /və²¹³/
Qingdao /və²¹³/
Zhengzhou /uo²⁴/
Xi'an /uo²¹/
Xining /u⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /və⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /və³¹/
Ürümqi /vɤ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /uo⁵⁵/
Chengdu /o⁵⁵/
Guiyang /o⁵⁵/
Kunming /o⁴⁴/
Nanjing /o³¹/
Hefei /ʊ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /vɤ¹¹/
Pingyao /uei¹³/
Hohhot /vɤ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /u⁵³/
Suzhou /əu⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔo³³/
Wenzhou /v̠u³³/
Hui Shexian /o³¹/
Tunxi /o¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /o³³/
Xiangtan /o³³/
Gan Nanchang /uo⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /vo⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔ⁵³/
Nanning /wɔ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /wɔ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /o⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uo⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ua⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /o³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /o²³/
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 窩
Reading # 1/1
No. 4378
Phonetic
component 		冎
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		倭
Old
Chinese 		/*qloːl/
Notes 𡑟後起字

Definitions

窩

  1. nest
    1. thing or place resembling a nest
  2. cave; den
  3. (figurative) hiding place
  4. depression; pit; dimple; socket
  5. to bend
  6. to be choked (with emotion)
  7. to hide something; to cause something to not be found
  8. to lay idle
  9. (colloquial) to stay (in a place)
  10. Classifier for litter; brood.
  11. (Internet slang) eye dialect spelling of 我 (wǒ, “I; me”)
    窩不知道／窝不知道  ―  wō bù zhīdào  ―  I don't know~ (a Taiwanese Internet meme)

Synonyms

  • (I, me):
  • 予 (Classical)
  • 余 (Classical)
  • 俺 (dialectal Mandarin)
  • 僕 / 仆 (pú) (literary, humble)
  • 區區 / 区区 (qūqū) (literary, humble)
  • 台 (Classical)
  • 吾 (Classical)
  • 妾 (qiè) (archaic, humble, use by women)
  • 孤 (gū) (used by emperor)
  • 我佬 (Mainland, internet slang)
  • 朕 (zhèn) (Classical)
  • 爺 / 爷 (yé) (colloquial, derogatory or familiar)
  • 老子 (lǎozi) (colloquial male)

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Turkic: *uyā

Japanese

Kanji

窩

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. cave
  2. pouch

Readings

  • Go-on: わ (wa)
  • Kan-on: わ (wa)
  • Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
  • Kun: むろ (muro, 窩)

Korean

Hanja

窩 • (wa) (hangeul 와)

  1. a dugout hut
  2. nest
  3. cave

Vietnamese

Han character

窩: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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