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Translingual

Han character

(radical 131 +2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人 (SLO), four-corner 78700, composition)

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.
simp.

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  + .

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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/
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
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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;
* 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. 13061
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋʷaːls/
Notes 宿

Definitions

  1. to lie down
  2. to crouch

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngọa, ngoạ)

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