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霧
霧
Translingual
Han character
霧 (radical 173 雨+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一月弓竹尸 (MBNHS), four-corner 10227, composition ⿱雨務)
References
- KangXi: page 1377, character 36
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42418
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4074, character 15
- Unihan data for U+9727
Chinese
| trad. | 霧 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 雾 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 堥 | *muː, *mu |
| 蓩 | *muːʔ, *moːɡ |
| 猱 | *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us |
| 茅 | *mruː |
| 罞 | *mruː, *muːŋ |
| 蝥 | *mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs |
| 鶜 | *mruː |
| 瞀 | *moːɡs, *mroːɡ |
| 愗 | *moːɡs |
| 袤 | *mus |
| 雺 | *mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs |
| 懋 | *mus |
| 楙 | *mus |
| 矛 | *mu |
| 蟊 | *mu |
| 髳 | *mu, *muːŋ |
| 鍪 | *mu |
| 鞪 | *mu, *moːɡ |
| 糅 | *ml'us |
| 腬 | *ml'us, *mlju |
| 柔 | *mlju |
| 揉 | *mju |
| 蹂 | *mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus |
| 鍒 | *mju |
| 騥 | *mju |
| 蝚 | *mju |
| 葇 | *mju, *mjuʔ |
| 鞣 | *mju, *mjus |
| 鰇 | *mju |
| 瑈 | *mju |
| 鶔 | *mju |
| 楺 | *mjuʔ |
| 煣 | *mjuʔ, *mjus |
| 輮 | *mjuʔ, *mjus |
| 韖 | *mjuʔ |
| 敄 | *moʔ, *mos |
| 務 | *moɡs |
| 鶩 | *moɡs, *moːɡ |
| 騖 | *moɡs |
| 婺 | *moɡs |
| 霚 | *moɡs, *moːŋ |
| 嵍 | *moɡs |
| 霧 | *moɡs, *moːŋ |
| 霿 | *moːŋ, *moːŋs |
| 楘 | *moːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moɡs, *moːŋ) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 務 (OC *moɡs).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mou6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vu
- Min Dong (BUC): ô
- Min Nan (POJ): bū
- Wu (Wiktionary): vu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: wu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
- IPA (key): /u⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mou6
- Yale: mouh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6
- IPA (key): /mou̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu
- Hakka Romanization System: vu
- Hagfa Pinyim: vu4
- IPA: /vu⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: ô
- IPA (key): /ou²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bū
- Tâi-lô: bū
- Phofsit Daibuun: bu
- IPA (Xiamen): /bu²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /bu³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: vu (T3)
- IPA (key): /v̻v̩ʷ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 霧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 亡遇切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mɨoH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mioH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mioH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/muə̆H/ |
| Li Rong |
/mioH/ |
| Wang Li |
/mĭuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wù |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 霧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ mjuH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kə.m(r)[o]k-s/ |
| English | fog, mist |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 霧 | 霧 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 8856 | 8863 |
| Phonetic component |
矛 | 矛 |
| Rime group |
竇 | 東 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
務 | 蒙 |
| Old Chinese |
/*moɡs/ | /*moːŋ/ |
| Notes | 見爾雅，說文作霚 | 見史記 |
Definitions
霧
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
霧
Readings
Compounds
Noun
- mist, fog
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki
- 重霧 下奇利
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki
See also
- 霞み (kasumi)
References
- Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 978-4-490-30010-9.
Korean
Hanja
霧 • (mu) (hangeul 무)
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