呼

See also 謼

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 – 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.

Han character

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

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

呼 (Yale fu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

呼 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: こ (ko)
• Kun: よぶ (yobu)

Compounds

• 呼格 (こかく, kokaku) vocative case

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

呼 (pinyin hū (hu1), Wade-Giles hu¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呼 (hô, ho, hò, hố, hú)