呼

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See also: 呯 and 謼
呼 U+547C, 呼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-547C
← 呻
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 命 →
㈺ U+323A, ㈺
PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH CALL
← ㈹
 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㈻ →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

呼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 62049, composition ⿰口乎)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3471
  • Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 605, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+547C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 呼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
罅 *qʰraːs
呼 *qʰaː
軤 *qʰaː
苸 *qʰaː
嘑 *qʰaː
歑 *qʰaː
謼 *qʰaː, *qʰaːs
滹 *qʰaː
乎 *ɢaː
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
嫭 *ɢaːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • hù - literary;
  • kŭ - vernacular.
Note:
  • ho͘ - literary;
  • kho͘ - vernacular.
Rime
Character 呼
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 呼 呼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		hū hù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ xu › ‹ xuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰˁa/ /*qʰˁa-s/
English call out, shout call out, shout

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 呼
Reading # 1/1
No. 5181
Phonetic
component 		乎
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		呼
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰaː/

Definitions

呼

  1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
  2. to shout; to yell
  3. to call (someone); to address
  4. (onomatopoeia, of wind) howling
  5. (Chinese phonetics) medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口／开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合／开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "to breathe out"): 吸 (xī)

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

呼

  1. † Alternative form of 詨／𰵦 (xiào, “to shout”)

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

呼

  1. † Alternative form of 吁 (“sigh (expression of fatigue)”)

Pronunciation 4

Definitions

呼

  1. † Expression of anger.

Pronunciation 5

Definitions

呼

  1. ‡ Alternative form of 罅 (xià, “crack; rift”)

Japanese

Kanji

呼

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. call
  2. call out to
  3. invite

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
呼
こ
Grade: 6
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu).

Pronunciation

Affix

呼(こ) • (ko) 

  1. to breathe out, to exhale, to sigh
  2. to shout, to yell
  3. to call (someone), to address

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu). Recorded as Middle Korean 호 (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

呼 (eumhun 부를 호 (bureul ho))

  1. Hanja form? of 호 (“to call; to shout”).
  2. Hanja form? of 호 (“to exhale; to breathe out”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

呼: Hán Nôm readings: hô, há, hao, hào

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