寤

寤 U+5BE4, 寤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE4 ← 寣 [U+5BE3] CJK Unified Ideographs 寥 → [U+5BE5]

Translingual

Han character

寤 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十女一口 (JVMR), four-corner 3026₁, composition ⿱宀𤕻)

1. few, scarce
2. empty, deserted

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 291, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7291
• Dae Jaweon: page 575, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 950, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5BE4

Chinese

trad.		寤
simp. #		寤
alternative forms		窹 𡬑 𡨟 𡨂 𡩺 窹 𡬑 𡨟 𡨂 𡩺 𥧝 𥧸 𩄭 唔

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (五) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
吾	*ŋraː, *ŋaː
衙	*ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
鼯	*ŋaː
浯	*ŋaː
珸	*ŋaː
郚	*ŋaː
齬	*ŋaː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ
鯃	*ŋaː
娪	*ŋaː
梧	*ŋaː
峿	*ŋaː
五	*ŋaːʔ
伍	*ŋaːʔ
寤	*ŋaːs
啎	*ŋaːs
晤	*ŋaːs
悟	*ŋaːs
逜	*ŋaːs
窹	*ŋaːs
捂	*ŋaːs
鋙	*ŋa, *ŋaʔ
語	*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
圄	*ŋaʔ
敔	*ŋaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːs) : abbreviated semantic 㝱 (“dream”) + phonetic 吾 (OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː).

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁶
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ngu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ng⁶
    • Yale: ngh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍²²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ngu
    • MiniDict: ngu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ngu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ŋu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: nguH

Rime
Character	寤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五故切
Baxter	nguH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɔH/
Li Rong	/ŋoH/
Wang Li	/ŋuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ng6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù
Middle Chinese	‹ nguH ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˁa-s/
English	awake
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	寤
Reading #	1/1
No.	13149
Phonetic component	五
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	誤
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːs/

Definitions

寤

1. (literary) to wake up; to awake

   Antonym: 寐 (mèi)

2. (alt. form 悟) to become aware; to realize; to awaken

Compounds

• 寤夢／寤梦
• 寤寐 (wùmèi)
• 寤寐不寧／寤寐不宁
• 寤寐以求
• 寤寐求之
• 寤懷／寤怀
• 寤生
• 早迷晚寤
• 覺寤／觉寤

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01049
• “寤”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

寤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ご (go)
• Kun: さめる (sameru)

Korean

Hanja

寤 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寤: Hán Nôm readings: ngộ, ngụ, ngù, ngú

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