吳
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TranslingualEdit
Traditional | 吳 |
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Shinjitai | 呉 |
Simplified | 吴 |
Han characterEdit
吳 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓大 (RVNK), four-corner 26801, composition ⿺⿱𠃑大口)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 179, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
- Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 595, character 8
- Unihan data for U+5433
ChineseEdit
trad. | 吳/吴* | |
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simp. | 吴* | |
alternative forms | 呉 𠯵 㕦 𡗾 𡗿 |
Glyph originEdit
Historical forms of the character 吳 | |||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 (“mouth”) + 夨 (“man with tilted head”) – to speak loudly.
Etymology 1Edit
- "to shout"
- Perhaps related to Tibetan ངར་སྐད (ngar skad, “roar; shout”), Tibetan ང་རོ (nga ro, “roar; yell; shout”) (Schuessler, 2007).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
吳
- † to speak loudly; to shout
- † big
- (historical) (~國) Wu, a state during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period
- (historical) (~國) Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms
- (historical) (~國) Wu, one of the Ten Kingdoms in eastern China which was in existence from 907 to 937
- the region comprising southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang
- Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese
- See also: 吳語
- (~市) Kure (a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)
- a surname
DescendantsEdit
CompoundsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
吳
- Alternative form of 虞 (yú).
JapaneseEdit
呉 | |
吳 |
KanjiEdit
吳
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 呉)
ReadingsEdit
Usage notesEdit
This character lacks JIS support. The character 呉 (U+5449) is used instead in Japanese.
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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吳, eumhun 큰소리칠 화 (keunsorichil hwa)
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