呺

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呺 U+547A, 呺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-547A
← 呹
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呻 →

Translingual

Han character

呺 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口一尸 (RRMS), four-corner 66027, composition ⿰口号)

  1. voice of anger
  2. vast, spacious

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3466
  • Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 600, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+547A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 呺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (号) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
饕 *l̥ʰaːw
號 *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws
号 *ɦlaːws
枵 *hraw
呺 *hraw
鴞 *ɦraw

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 呺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 宵 (92)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許嬌切
Baxter xjew
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hˠiᴇu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hᵚiɛu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xiæu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hiaw/
Li
Rong 		/xjɛu/
Wang
Li 		/xĭɛu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xi̯ɛu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xiāo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hiu1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 呺
Reading # 1/1
No. 4920
Phonetic
component 		号
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		嚻
Old
Chinese 		/*hraw/
Notes 見莊子

Definitions

呺

  1. (～然) large and hollow inside
    非不呺然大也，吾為其無用而掊之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    非不呺然大也，吾为其无用而掊之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: Zhuangzi, circa 3rd – 2nd centuries BCE
    Fēi bù xiāo rán dà yě, wú wèi qí wúyòng ér póu zhī.
    It wasn’t that it was not hollow and large, but because of its uselessness, I broke it.
    Note: In another version, this character was written as 枵, which has the same meaning.

References

Japanese

Kanji

呺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): きょう (kyō)、ごう (gō)、こう (kō)、く (ku)

Korean

Hanja

呺 • (hyo, ho) (hangeul 효, 호, revised hyo, ho, McCune–Reischauer hyo, ho)

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