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臥
臥
See also: 卧
Translingual
Han character
臥 (radical 131 臣+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人 (SLO), four-corner 78700, composition ⿰臣人)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 999, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30071
- Dae Jaweon: page 1450, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2801, character 3
- Unihan data for U+81E5
Chinese
trad. | 臥 | |
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simp. | 卧 |
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 臣 + 人.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo6
- Min Dong (BUC): nguô
- Min Nan (POJ): ngō͘
- Wu (Wiktionary): ngu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
- Wade-Giles: wo4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
- IPA (key): /u̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ngo6
- Yale: ngoh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ngo6
- IPA (key): /ŋɔː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: nguô
- IPA (key): /ŋuɔ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngō͘
- Tâi-lô: ngōo
- Phofsit Daibuun: ngo
- IPA (Xiamen): /ŋɔ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋɔ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ngu (T3)
- IPA (key): /ŋv̩ʷ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
Variety | Location | 臥 |
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Mandarin | Beijing | /uo⁵¹/ |
Harbin | /uo⁵³/ | |
Tianjin | /uo⁵³/ | |
Jinan | /və²¹/ | |
Qingdao | /və²¹³/ | |
Zhengzhou | /uo³¹²/ | |
Xi'an | /uo⁴⁴/ | |
Xining | /u²¹³/ | |
Yinchuan | /və¹³/ | |
Lanzhou | /və¹³/ | |
Ürümqi | /vɤ²¹³/ | |
Wuhan | /uo³⁵/ | |
Chengdu |
/o¹³/ /ŋo¹³/ |
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Guiyang | /o²¹³/ | |
Kunming | /o²¹²/ | |
Nanjing | /o⁴⁴/ | |
Hefei | /ʊ⁵³/ | |
Jin | Taiyuan | /vɤ⁴⁵/ |
Pingyao | /uə³⁵/ | |
Hohhot | /vɤ⁵⁵/ | |
Wu | Shanghai | /ŋu²³/ |
Suzhou | /ŋəu³¹/ | |
Hangzhou | /ɦo¹³/ | |
Wenzhou | /ŋ²²/ | |
Hui | Shexian | /ŋo²²/ |
Tunxi | /ŋo¹¹/ | |
Xiang | Changsha | /o⁵⁵/ |
Xiangtan | /ŋo⁵⁵/ | |
Gan | Nanchang | /ŋo²¹/ |
Hakka | Meixian | /ŋo⁵³/ |
Taoyuan | ||
Cantonese | Guangzhou | /ŋɔ²²/ |
Nanning | /ŋɔ²²/ | |
Hong Kong | /ŋɔ²²/ | |
Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /go²²/ |
Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /ŋuɔ²⁴²/ | |
Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ŋɔ²⁴/ | |
Shantou (Min Nan) | /o³⁵/ | |
Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ŋo³⁵/ /ai²¹³/ 訓偃 |
Rime | |
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Character | 臥 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
Openness (開合) | Closed |
Division (等) | I |
Fanqie | 吾貨切 |
Reconstructions | |
Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Pan Wuyun |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Shao Rongfen |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ŋwaH/ |
Li Rong |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Wang Li |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Bernard Karlgren |
/ŋuɑH/ |
Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wò |
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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Character | 臥 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wò |
Middle Chinese |
‹ ngwaH › |
Old Chinese |
/*[ŋ]ˤ[o]j-s/ |
English | lie down, sleep |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; |
Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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Character | 臥 |
Reading # | 1/1 |
No. | 13061 |
Phonetic component |
臥 |
Rime group |
歌 |
Rime subdivision |
1 |
Corresponding MC rime |
臥 |
Old Chinese |
/*ŋʷaːls/ |
Notes | 原象人倚臣臨時休憩,或雲臣爲宿右下席形之訛 |
Definitions
臥
Compounds
Derived terms from 臥
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Japanese
Kanji
臥
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
臥 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
臥 (ngọa, ngoạ)
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