幠

幠 U+5E60, 幠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E60 ← 幟 [U+5E5F] CJK Unified Ideographs 幡 → [U+5E61]

Translingual

Han character

幠 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中月人廿火 (LBOTF), four-corner 4823₁, composition ⿰巾無)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 336, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9081
• Dae Jaweon: page 643, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 754, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5E60

Chinese

trad.		幠
simp.		𭘓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
墲	*m̥ʰaː, *maː, *ma
橅	*maː
膴	*hmaː, *ma, *maʔ
幠	*hmaː
鄦	*hmaʔ
撫	*m̥ʰaʔ
無	*ma
瞴	*ma, *maʔ
蕪	*ma
璑	*ma
鷡	*ma
譕	*ma
憮	*ma, *maʔ
舞	*maʔ
廡	*maʔ
嫵	*maʔ
甒	*maʔ
潕	*maʔ
儛	*maʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmaː) : semantic 巾 (“towel”) + phonetic 無 (OC *ma).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hu
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Yale: hū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xu

Rime
Character	幠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	荒烏切
Baxter	xu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huo/
Pan Wuyun	/huo/
Shao Rongfen	/xo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɔ/
Li Rong	/xo/
Wang Li	/xu/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	幠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hū
Middle Chinese	‹ xu ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁa/
English	cover
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	幠
Reading #	1/1
No.	13114
Phonetic component	無
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	呼
Old Chinese	/*hmaː/

Definitions

幠

1. ^† to cover

Japanese

Kanji

幠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こ (ko); く (ku); ぶ (bu); む (mu)
• Kun: おほひ (ohohi); おほふ (ohofu)