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U+5589, 喉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5589

[U+5588]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+558A]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓大 (RONK), four-corner 67034, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 197, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3913
  • Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5589

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koː, *koː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
帿 *ɡoː
*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
*ɡoː
*ɡoːs
*ɡoːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡoː) : semantic  (mouth) + phonetic  (OC *ɡoː) – connected to the mouth, the throat.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəw/
Li
Rong
/ɣu/
Wang
Li
/ɣəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ huw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤ(r)o/
English throat

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5140
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoː/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) larynx
  2. (by extension) throat; gullet
  3. guttural

See also

  • (yān, “pharynx”)

Compounds

  • 喉衿
  • 喉鏡喉镜
  • 喉長氣短喉长气短
  • 喉音
  • 喉頭喉头 (hóutóu)
  • 喉風喉风
  • 囀喉啭喉
  • 大喉嚨大喉咙
  • 如鯁在喉如鲠在喉
  • 弔喉
  • 扼喉撫背扼喉抚背 (èhóufǔbèi)
  • 拊背扼喉
  • 摩喉羅摩喉罗
  • 撫背扼喉抚背扼喉
  • 歌喉
  • 潤喉润喉
  • 為民喉舌为民喉舌
  • 煙生喉舌烟生喉舌
  • 猴急
  • 珠喉
  • 發喉急发喉急
  • 白喉 (báihóu)
  • 白喉疫苗
  • 結喉结喉
  • 耳鼻喉科 (ěrbíhóukē)
  • 衿喉
  • 襟喉
  • 見血封喉见血封喉
  • 調喉调喉
  • 調喉嗓调喉嗓
  • 骨鯁在喉骨鲠在喉 (gǔgěng zài hóu)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
のど
Grade: S
kun'yomi

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo > nodo.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana のど, romaji nodo)

  1. throat
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (huw).

Pronunciation

Counter

(hiragana こう, romaji -kō)

  1. counter for fish
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
Irregular

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo.

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [nõ̞ndo̞]

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana のんど, romaji nondo)

  1. throat

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
Irregular

From (nomito).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [no̞mido̞]

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana のみど, romaji nomido)

  1. throat

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
Irregular

Compound of 飲み (nomi, drink) + (to, passage). nomi is the nominalized form of the verb 飲む (nomu, to drink).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
  • IPA(key): [no̞mito̞]

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana のみと, romaji nomito)

  1. throat

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(hu) (hangeul , revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)

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Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana ぬーでぃー, romaji nūdī)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (nodo).

Noun

(hiragana ぬーでぃー, romaji nūdī)

  1. throat

Derived terms


Vietnamese

Han character

(hầu)

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