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呼

呼

呼 U+547C, 呼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-547C
← 呻
[U+547B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 命 →
[U+547D]
See also: 謼

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

呼 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 62049, composition ⿰口乎)

  1. breathe, sigh, exhale
  2. call, shout

References

  • KangXi: page 183, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3471
  • Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 605, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+547C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 呼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
罅 *qʰraːs
呼 *qʰaː
軤 *qʰaː
苸 *qʰaː
嘑 *qʰaː
歑 *qʰaː
謼 *qʰaː, *qʰaːs
滹 *qʰaː
乎 *ɢaː
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
嫭 *ɢaːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qʰaː) : semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 ‎(OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth 口. Note that 乎 is used as an exclamation particle, hence connotations of “an exclamation from the mouth, a shout”.

Note that the right side is 乎, not 平 – these differ in that 乎 has a slanted top and a hook at the bottom.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 呼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 荒烏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huo/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɔ/
Li
Rong		 /xo/
Wang
Li		 /xu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 呼 呼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hū hù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xu › ‹ xuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰˤa/ /*qʰˤa-s/
English call out, shout call out, shout

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 呼
Reading # 1/1
No. 5181
Phonetic
component		 乎
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 呼
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰaː/

Definitions

呼

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Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

呼

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. call
  2. call out to
  3. invite

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

呼 • ‎(ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呼 (hô, há, hao, hào)

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