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Han characterEdit
吾 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一一口 (MMR), four-corner 10601, composition ⿱五口)
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 180, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3379
- Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 585, character 13
- Unihan data for U+543E
ChineseEdit
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Glyph originEdit
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː): phonetic 五 (OC *ŋaːʔ) + semantic 口 (“mouth”).
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka (“I”). Cognate with 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”), Hakka 𠊎 (ngài, “I”).
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
吾
- (literary or dialectal) I
- 如有政，雖不吾以，吾其與聞之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Analects of Confucius, circa 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Rú yǒu zhèng, suī bù wú yǐ, wú qí yù wén zhī. [Pinyin]
- If there had been government business, though I am now not appointed, I should have been consulted about it.
如有政，虽不吾以，吾其与闻之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- 吾觀全地球之社會，未有凌亂舊金山之華人者。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 1904 February, Liang Qichao, "Travel Notes of the New Continent"
- Wú guān quán dìqiú zhī shèhuì, wèi yǒu língluàn Jiùjīnshān zhī huárén zhě. [Pinyin]
- From all the societies I have seen in the world, there is no society as disorderly as the Chinese community in San Francisco.
吾观全地球之社会，未有凌乱旧金山之华人者。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary or dialectal) my
- 吾皇 [Classical Chinese] ― wú huáng [Pinyin] ― my emperor
- 吾姆 [Hakka] ― ngâ mê [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ] ― my mom
- A surname. Wu
SynonymsEdit
Usage notesEdit
Before the Three Kingdoms period, 吾 ("I") was mostly only used as a subject, a pronoun object of a negated sentence or an interrogative pronoun object (the latter two cases are where the pronoun object is placed before the verb), meaning 吾 seldom occurred as the pronoun object that is placed after a verb.
CompoundsEdit
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
吾
- Only used in 允吾.
Pronunciation 3Edit
DefinitionsEdit
吾
- Only used in 吾吾.
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
吾
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
ReadingsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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| 吾 |
| われ Jinmeiyō |
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| 吾 |
| わ Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
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Etymology 2Edit
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| 吾 |
| あれ Jinmeiyō |
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Etymology 3Edit
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| 吾 |
| あ Jinmeiyō |
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KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
吾 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)
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Old JapaneseEdit
PronounEdit
吾 (wa) (kana わ)
DescendantsEdit
- Satsugū dialect: おい (oi)
VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
- Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
- Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999