噂

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 尊

Han character

噂 (radical 30 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿田戈 (RTWI), four-corner 6804₆)

1. meet

References

• KangXi: page 208, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4286
• Dae Jaweon: page 431, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 686, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5642

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Cantonese

Hanzi

噂 (Yale jyun2)

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Japanese

Kanji

噂 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: そん (son)
• Kun: うわさ (uwasa)

Noun

噂 (hiragana うわさ, romaji uwasa)

1. rumor, gossip

Derived terms

• うわさをすれば

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Korean

Hanja

噂 (hangeul 준, revised jun, McCune-Reischauer chun)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

噂 (pinyin kuò (kuo4), zǔn (zun3), Wade-Giles k'uo⁴, tsun³)