TranslingualEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 人 + phonetic 可
Han characterEdit
何 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓口 (OMNR), four-corner 21220, composition ⿰亻可)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 98, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 511
- Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 130, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4F55
ChineseEdit
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| simp. and trad. |
何 | |
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
- Wade-Giles: ho2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
- IPA (key): /xɤ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ho4, ho6
- Yale: hòh, hoh
- Cantonese Pinyin: ho4, ho6
- IPA (key): /hɔː²¹/, /hɔː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (何, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (何), Pronunciation 1/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 匣 (33) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 胡歌切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /ɦɑ/ | /ɣɑ/ | /ɣɑ/ | /ɦɑ/ | /ɦa/ | /ɣɑ/ | /ɣɑ/ |
| Character (何), Pronunciation 2/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 匣 (33) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 胡可切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /ɦɑX/ | /ɣɑX/ | /ɣɑX/ | /ɦɑX/ | /ɦaX/ | /ɣɑX/ | /ɣɑX/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (何, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 何 | hé | ‹ ha › | /*[ɡ]ˤaj/ | what | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 何 | 7458 | 可 | 歌 | 1 | 何 | /*ɡaːl/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 何 | 7466 | 可 | 歌 | 1 | 荷 | /*ɡaːlʔ/ | 同荷 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DefinitionsEdit
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DescendantsEdit
- (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Ho
ReferencesEdit
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
何
ReadingsEdit
CompoundsEdit
InterjectionEdit
- What?, Huh?
PronounEdit
- what
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 92)
- 汝何所爲 奈尓世牟止曽
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 92)
- that thing (used in place of words you can't remember at the moment.)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- 何れ (どれ, dore) which one?
- 何の (どの, dono) (of) what?
- 何処 (どこ, doko) where?
- 何方 (どちら, dochira) which way?
- 如何 (どう, dō) in what manner?
ReferencesEdit
- Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
何 (ha) (hangeul 하, revised ha, McCune-Reischauer ha)
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