謳

See also: 𧦅 and 讴

謳	U+8B33, 謳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B33

← 謲
[U+8B32]

CJK Unified Ideographs

謴 →
[U+8B34]

Translingual

Traditional	謳
Shinjitai (extended)	𧦅
Simplified	讴

Han character

謳 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜口尸口口 (YRSRR), four-corner 0161₆, composition ⿰訁區)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1178, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35885
Dae Jaweon: page 1642, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4011, character 11
Unihan data for U+8B33

Chinese

trad.		謳
simp.		讴
alternative forms		歐／欧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 謳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
摳	kʰoː, kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	kʰoː, qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	qoː, qoːʔ
區	qoː, kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	qoː, qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	qoː, qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	qoː, kʰu, qo, qos
醧	qoː, qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	kʰo, kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qoː): semantic 言 + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ōu (ou¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): au¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ĕu
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): io / o͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): ao¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ou
  - Wade–Giles: ou¹
  - Yale: ōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
  - Palladius: оу (ou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: au¹
  - Yale: āu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: au¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: eo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐu̯⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ĕu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛu⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io
  - Tâi-lô: io
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ioy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /io³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ao¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: au
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /au³³/

Middle Chinese: 'uw

Rime
Character	謳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏侯切
Baxter	'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔəu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəw/
Li Rong	/ʔu/
Wang Li	/əu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	au¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qoː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	謳
Reading #	1/1
No.	10582
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qoː/

Definitions

謳

to sing
(literary) song; folk song
(literary) to extol; to sing praises
(literary) to chant
a surname

Compounds

低謳 / 低讴 (dī'ōu)
淺斟低謳 / 浅斟低讴
清謳微吟 / 清讴微吟
粵謳 / 粤讴 (yuè'ōu)
謳吟 / 讴吟
謳歌 / 讴歌 (ōugē)

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	𧦅
Print standard	謳

Kanji

謳

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𧦅)

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Readings

Go-on: う (u)
Kan-on: おう (ō)
Kun: うたう (utau, 謳う)^{←うたふ (utafu, 謳ふ, historical)}

Definitions

Kanji in this term
謳
うた Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 謳 – see the following entry.

【歌うた】2

[noun] (music) a song

[noun] (poetry) poetry

Alternative spellings
唄, 詩

(This term, 謳, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

謳 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

謳: Hán Nôm readings: âu

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