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Translingual

Han character

(radical 113 +9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 戈火月月口 (IFBBR), four-corner 37227, composition)

  1. misfortune, calamity, disaster

References

  • KangXi: page 844, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24766
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1265, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2402, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+798D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'oːl
*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
*kloːl, *kloːls
*kloːl, *qloːl
*kloːl
*kloːl, *ɡloːls
*kloːl
*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
*kloːl
*kloːl, *qloːl
*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
*kʰloːl
*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
*ɡloːlʔ
*qloːl
*qloːl
*kr'oːl
*kr'oːl
*kroːl, *kʷroːl
*kroːl, *kʷroːl
*kroːl, *kʷroːl
*kroːlʔ
*kroːlʔ
*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
*kʷroːl
*kʰʷroːl
*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡloːlʔ) : semantic  (sacrifice) + phonetic  (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xuo⁵¹/
Harbin /xuo⁵³/
Tianjin /xuo⁵³/
Jinan /xuə²¹/
Qingdao /xuə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xuo³¹²/
Xi'an /xuo⁴⁴/
Xining /xu²¹³/
Yinchuan /xuə¹³/
Lanzhou /xuə¹³/
Ürümqi /xuɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /xuo³⁵/
Chengdu /xo¹³/
Guiyang /xo²¹³/
Kunming /xo²¹²/
Nanjing /xo⁴⁴/
Hefei /xʊ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xuɤ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xuə³⁵/
Hohhot /xuɤ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦu²³/
Suzhou /ɦəu³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦo¹³/
Wenzhou /vu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /xo²²/
Tunxi /xo²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xo⁵⁵/
/xo¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦo²¹/
Gan Nanchang /fo²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fo⁵³/
Taoyuan /fo⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɔ²²/
Nanning /wɔ²²/
Hong Kong /wɔ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ho²²/
/e²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huɔ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xua⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hua³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ho³³/
/hua³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwaX/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɑX/
Wang
Li
/ɣuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huò
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwaX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ʷˤajʔ/
English calamity

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. 4375
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡloːlʔ/

Definitions

  1. trouble, disaster, misfortune, calamity

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana わざわい, romaji wazawai)

  1. Alternative form of 災い

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hoạ, vạ)

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