吽

Translingual

Han character

吽 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹手 (RHQ), four-corner 6500₀, composition ⿰口牛)

Derived characters

• 𭌨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 180, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3378
• Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 589, character 6
• Unihan data for U+543D

Chinese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

吽

1. Only used in 吽牙.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

吽

1. Used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 (ǎn mānī bēimēi hōng).
2. Used in 阿吽 (āhōng).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

吽

1. (Cantonese) dull; listless

Compounds

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Definitions

吽

1. (Cantonese) Alternative form of 漚／沤 (au³)

Etymology 5

References

• Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “吽” in 佛學大辭典 .
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01034
• “吽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. bark, growl
2. Used in Sanskrit transliterations

Readings

As "to bark, howl":

• Go-on: く (ku); ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: こう (kō); ごう (gō)
• Kun: ほえる (hoeru, 吽える)

As transcription of Sanskrit हूँ (hūm̐):

• Go-on: おん (on)^{←おん (on, historical)←おむ (omu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: いん (in)^{←いん (in, historical)←いむ (imu, ancient)}
• Kan’yō-on: うん (un)

Etymology

Kan'yoon pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) う​ん (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

吽(うん) • (un) 

1. (Buddhism) the Sanskrit syllable hūṃ

References

Korean

Hanja

吽 • (hu, eum, u) (hangeul 후, 음, 우, revised hu, eum, u, McCune–Reischauer hu, ŭm, u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吽: Hán Việt readings: hồng, hống, ngâu, oanh, ẩu
吽: Nôm readings: hống, ngào

1. chữ Hán form of Hồng (“a personal name”).
2. chữ Hán form of hồng (“transliteration of hūṃ (हूँ) in Buddhism”).

References