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吴

吴

吴 U+5434, 吴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5434
← 吳
[U+5433] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 吵 →
[U+5435]
See also: 吳 and 呉

Translingual

Han character

吴 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口一大 (RMK), composition ⿱口天)

  1. one of the Warring States
  2. the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
  3. the dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese
  4. a Chinese surname
  5. a harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

References

  • KangXi: page 179, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3366
  • Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 585, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5434

Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 吴 – see 吳.
(This character, 吴, is the simplified form of 吳.)
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 吴 – see 吞.
(This character, 吴, is a variant form of 吞.)

Japanese

Kanji

吴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

吴 • ‎(o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o)

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