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葫
葫
See also: 胡
Translingual
Han character
葫 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口月 (TJRB), four-corner 44627)
- bottle-gourd
 
References
- KangXi: page 1045, character 34
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31443
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 6
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3244, character 1
 - Unihan data for U+846B
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
葫 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 箇 | *kaːls | 
| 個 | *kaːls | 
| 居 | *kɯ, *kas | 
| 橭 | *kaː, *kʰaː | 
| 嫴 | *kaː | 
| 姑 | *kaː | 
| 辜 | *kaː | 
| 酤 | *kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ | 
| 蛄 | *kaː | 
| 鴣 | *kaː | 
| 沽 | *kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs | 
| 盬 | *kaː, *kaːʔ | 
| 古 | *kaːʔ | 
| 罟 | *kaːʔ | 
| 估 | *kaːʔ | 
| 鈷 | *kaːʔ | 
| 詁 | *kaːʔ | 
| 牯 | *kaːʔ | 
| 故 | *kaːs | 
| 固 | *kaːs | 
| 稒 | *kaːɡs | 
| 痼 | *kaːɡs | 
| 錮 | *kaːɡs | 
| 鯝 | *kaːɡs | 
| 棝 | *kaːɡs | 
| 凅 | *kaːɡs | 
| 枯 | *kʰaː | 
| 軲 | *kʰaː | 
| 跍 | *kʰaː | 
| 骷 | *kʰaː | 
| 苦 | *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs | 
| 葫 | *qʰaː, *ɡaː | 
| 餬 | *ɡaː | 
| 瑚 | *ɡaː | 
| 湖 | *ɡaː | 
| 鶘 | *ɡaː | 
| 猢 | *ɡaː | 
| 醐 | *ɡaː | 
| 糊 | *ɡaː | 
| 箶 | *ɡaː | 
| 蝴 | *ɡaː | 
| 胡 | *ɡaː | 
| 瓳 | *ɡaː | 
| 怙 | *ɡaːʔ | 
| 祜 | *ɡaːʔ | 
| 岵 | *ɡaːʔ | 
| 婟 | *ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs | 
| 楛 | *ɡaːʔ | 
| 据 | *ka | 
| 裾 | *ka | 
| 琚 | *ka | 
| 椐 | *ka, *kas, *kʰa | 
| 鶋 | *ka | 
| 蜛 | *ka | 
| 崌 | *ka | 
| 涺 | *ka | 
| 腒 | *ka, *ɡa | 
| 鋸 | *kas | 
| 倨 | *kas | 
| 踞 | *kas | 
| 涸 | *ɡaːɡ | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ
 - Wade-Giles: hu2
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu
 - IPA (key): /xu³⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wu4
 - Yale: wùh
 - Cantonese Pinyin: wu4
 - IPA (key): /wuː²¹/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘
 - Tâi-lô: hôo
 - Phofsit Daibuun: hoo
 - IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ²⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²⁴/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ¹³/
 - IPA (Taipei): /hɔ²⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ²³/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 葫 | 葫 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) | 曉 (32) | 
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) | 模 (23) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | 
| Division (等) | I | I | 
| Fanqie | 戸吳切 | 荒烏切 | 
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/ɦuo/ | /huo/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/ɦuo/ | /huo/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/ɣo/ | /xo/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/ɦɔ/ | /hɔ/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/ɣo/ | /xo/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/ɣu/ | /xu/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/ɣuo/ | /xuo/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
hú | hū | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 葫 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
hú | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ hu › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*[ɡ]ˤa/ | 
| English | gourd | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 葫 | 葫 | 
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 | 
| No. | 4244 | 4252 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
古 | 古 | 
| Rime group  | 
魚 | 魚 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
0 | 0 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
呼 | 胡 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*qʰaː/ | /*ɡaː/ | 
Definitions
葫
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
葫
Readings
Korean
Hanja
葫 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)
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Vietnamese
Han character
葫 (hồ)
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