號

號 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口尸卜心弓 (RSYPN) or 口尸卜心山 (RSYPU), four-corner 6121₁, composition ⿰号虎)

• 饕, 㙱, 𣜍, 𧰑, 𡀱, 𣜵, 𤩭, 𪷢

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1074, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32726
• Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2824, character 4
• Unihan data for U+865F

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws): phonetic 号 (OC *ɦlaːws) + semantic 虎 (“tiger”).

Originally an ideogram (指事) of a tiger and a line representing its roar, hence exhaled air while roaring. Later forms added 口 (“mouth”) or 言 (“speech”) to emphasize the act of crying or calling. The original meaning was "to roar; to shout". 号 derives from 口 and the line 丂.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)aw (“to call”) (Schuessler, 2007, STEDT). Compare Kinnauri ku, Anong go, and Burmese ခေါ် (hkau). The extension of the meaning ‘shout, call’ to ‘ask, request’ is parallel to 呼 (hū).

Pronunciation 1 is the exopassive derivation of pronunciation 2, literally "what is called".

號

1. name; alias
2. (specifically) art name
3. to order; to command
4. shop; store
5. mark; symbol
6. number

   第五號／第五号  ―  dì-wǔ hào  ―  No. 5 (in a sequence); V

7. (informal) day of the month.

   7月27號／7月27号  ―  7 yuè 27 hào  ―  July 27

8. the name of a boat

   遼寧號是中國人民解放軍海軍的第一艘航空母艦。 [MSC, trad.]
   辽宁号是中国人民解放军海军的第一艘航空母舰。 [MSC, simp.]

   Liáoníng hào shì zhōngguórénmínjiěfàngjūn hǎijūn de dìyī sōu hángkōngmǔjiàn. [Pinyin]

   Liaoning is the first aircraft carrier of the People's Liberation Army Navy.

9. (music) brass instrument
10. (typography) hao

    See also: 字號

11. (Internet) account

    個人號／个人号  ―  gèrénhào  ―  personal account

    大號／大号  ―  dàhào  ―  main account

    小號／小号  ―  xiǎohào  ―  alternate account

12. (Central Plains and Lanyin Mandarin, Sichuanese) to correct; to mark (school work)

• (day of the month): 日 (rì)

• → Zhuang: heuh, hauh

號

1. to shout; to bawl; to cry loudly
2. (of animal) to roar
3. to cry (to shed a tear) (loudly)
4. (of wind) to howl; to roar

• “號”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03612
• “號”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 号)

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu, 號ぶ)、よびな (yobina, 號)

From Middle Chinese 號 (MC hawH, “name; command”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸʷo̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [호(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

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號 (eumhun 이름 호 (ireum ho))

1. hanja form^? of 호 (“name; alias”)
2. hanja form^? of 호 (“order; command”)
3. hanja form^? of 호 (“number”)
4. hanja form^? of 호 (“mark; symbol”)
5. hanja form^? of 호 (“art name”)

From Middle Chinese 號 (MC haw, “shout; cry”).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸʷo̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [호(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

號 (eumhun 부르짖을 호 (bureujijeul ho))

1. hanja form^? of 호 (“shout; cry”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

號: Hán Nôm readings: hào, hiệu, hiều

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