窩

See also: 窝

窩	U+7AA9, 窩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AA9

← 窨
[U+7AA8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

窪 →
[U+7AAA]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

窩 (radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金月月口 (JCBBR), four-corner 3022₇, composition ⿱穴咼)

Derived charactersEdit

𡁮, 𭒨

ReferencesEdit

KangXi: page 866, character 60
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25579
Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2733, character 4
Unihan data for U+7AA9

ChineseEdit

trad.		窩
simp.		窝

Glyph originEdit

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	ɡ·roːl, kʷroːl
過	kloːl, kloːls
渦	kloːl, qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	kloːl, ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	koːl, kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	kloːl, qloːl
鐹	kloːlʔ, kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	kʰloːl, kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	kroːl, kʷroːl
媧	kroːl, kʷroːl
騧	kroːl, kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	qʰroːls, qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qloːl): semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

PronunciationEdit

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ

(Dungan, Cyrillic): вә (və, I)
Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vô
Jin (Wiktionary): ve¹
Min Bei (KCR): uá
Min Dong (BUC): uŏ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘

(Teochew, Peng'im): o¹
Wu (Wiktionary): u (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: wō
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
  - Wade–Giles: wo¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wo
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
- (Dungan)
  - Cyrillic: вә (və, I)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /və²⁴/
  (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wo¹
  - Yale: wō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vô
  - Hakka Romanization System: vo´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vo¹
  - Sinological IPA: /vo²⁴/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: ve¹
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /vɤ¹¹/
Min Bei
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: uá
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua⁵⁴/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: uŏ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /uo⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
  - Tâi-lô: o
  - Phofsit Daibuun: oy
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: o¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: o
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /o³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: u (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /v̩ʷ⁵³/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 窩
Mandarin	Beijing	/uo⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/uo⁴⁴/ /uo⁵³/ 地名
	Tianjin	/uo²¹/
	Jinan	/və²¹³/
	Qingdao	/və²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/uo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/uo²¹/
	Xining	/u⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/və⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/və³¹/
	Ürümqi	/vɤ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/uo⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/o⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/o⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/o⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/o³¹/
	Hefei	/ʊ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vɤ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/uei¹³/
	Hohhot	/vɤ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/u⁵³/
	Suzhou	/əu⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔo³³/
	Wenzhou	/v̠u³³/
Hui	Shexian	/o³¹/
Hui	Tunxi	/o¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/o³³/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/o³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/uo⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/vo⁴⁴/
Hakka	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wɔ⁵³/
	Nanning	/wɔ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/wɔ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/o⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/uo⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ua⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/o³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/o²³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窩
Reading #	1/1
No.	4378
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	倭
Old Chinese	/*qloːl/
Notes	𡑟後起字

DefinitionsEdit

窩

nest
cave, den
hiding place
(Mainland China, Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of 我 (wǒ, “I, me”).

SynonymsEdit

(I, me):

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Synonyms of 窩

予 (yǔ) (Classical)
余 (yú) (Classical)
俺 (ǎn) (dialectal Mandarin)
僕／仆 (pú) (literary, humble)
區區／区区 (qūqū) (literary, humble)

台 (yí) (Classical)
吾 (wú) (Classical)
妾 (qiè) (archaic, humble, use by women)
孤 (gū) (used by emperor)
我佬 (wǒlǎo) (Mainland, internet slang)

朕 (zhèn) (Classical)
爺／爷 (yé) (colloquial, derogatory or familiar)
窩佬／窝佬 (wōlǎo) (Mainland, internet slang)
老子 (lǎozi) (colloquial male)

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 窩

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

窩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

cave
pouch

ReadingsEdit

Go-on: わ (wa)
Kan-on: わ (wa)
Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
Kun: むろ (muro, 窩)

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

窩 • (wa) (hangeul 와)

a dugout hut
nest
cave

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

窩: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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