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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿手木月 (TQDB), four-corner 44927, composition)

  1. lotus rhizome

References

  • KangXi: page 1065, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1529, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3317, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+85D5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋoː, *ŋo
*ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋoːʔ, *ŋo
*ŋoːʔ
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo, *ŋos
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo
*ŋo, *ŋoŋ
*ŋo
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋos
*ŋoŋ
*ŋoŋ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ou²¹⁴/
Harbin /ou²¹³/
Tianjin /nou¹³/
Jinan /ŋou⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ɣou⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ou⁵³/
Xi'an /ŋou⁵³/
Xining /nɯ⁵³/
Yinchuan /əu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ou⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /ŋɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /ŋəu⁴²/
Chengdu /ŋəu⁵³/
Guiyang /ŋəu⁴²/
/əu⁴²/
Kunming /əu⁵³/
Nanjing /əɯ²¹²/
Hefei /ʐɯ²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣəu⁵³/
Pingyao /ŋəu⁵³/
Hohhot /ŋəu⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ŋɤ²³/
Suzhou /ŋɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /ŋei⁵³/
Wenzhou /ŋau³⁵/
Hui Shexian /niu³⁵/
/ŋiu³⁵/
Tunxi /ȵiu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ŋəu⁴¹/
Xiangtan /ŋəɯ⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ŋiɛu²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /ŋeu³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /ŋɐu²³/
Nanning /ŋɐu²⁴/
Hong Kong /ŋɐu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ŋɔ⁵³/
/ŋau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋe²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋɔu²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋəuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋəuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋəwX/
Li
Rong
/ŋuX/
Wang
Li
/ŋəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ nguwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ŋˤ(r)oʔ/
English lotus root

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. 15915
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋoːʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 藕節藕节 (ǒujié)
  • 藕粉
  • 藕絲藕丝
  • 藕絲兒藕丝儿
  • 藕色
  • 藕花
  • 藕荷
  • 藕覆
  • 藕零兒藕零儿

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(u) (hangeul , revised u, McCune-Reischauer u, Yale wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngẫu, ngó)

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