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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水竹大 (EHK), four-corner 32134, composition)

  1. water, irrigate
  2. fertile, rich

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 609, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17184
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1566, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6C83

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*sqʰows
*qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
*qoːwʔ, *qoːws
*qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
*qrow
*qrow
*qrow
*qrow
*qrowʔ
*qrowʔ
*pa, *qu
*qos
*qoːwɢ
*qoːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːwɢ) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ) – to irrigate with water.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /uo⁵¹/
Harbin /uo⁵³/
Tianjin /uo⁵³/
Jinan /və²¹³/
Qingdao /və⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uo²⁴/
Xi'an /u²¹/
Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /və¹³/
Lanzhou /vu¹³/
Ürümqi /vɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /uo²¹³/
Chengdu /o³¹/
Guiyang /o²¹/
Kunming /o³¹/
Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
Hefei /uɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
Pingyao /vʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /vaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /oʔ⁵/
Suzhou /oʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /o²¹³/
Hui Shexian /uʔ²¹/
/uaʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋo²⁴/
Xiangtan /o²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /fok̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jok̚⁵/
Nanning /juk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jok̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ɔk̚³²/
/ak̚³²/ 澆水
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ok̚²/
/ak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ok̚⁵/
/ak̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔawk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔok̚/
Wang
Li
/uok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14637
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qoːwɢ/

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ok) (hangeul , revised ok, McCune-Reischauer ok, Yale ok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(óc)

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