喉

Translingual

Han character

喉 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓大 (RONK), four-corner 6703₄, composition ⿰口侯)

Derived characters

• 𪅺

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 197, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3913
• Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 657, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5589

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡoː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku (“neck; throat”) (STEDT); compare Chepang गुक् (“throat”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *kɔʔ (“neck”), whence Mon ကံ (kaʹ, “neck”), Khmer ក (kɑɑ, “neck”), Vietnamese cổ (“neck”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

喉

1. (anatomy) larynx
2. (by extension) throat; gullet
3. (Cantonese) pipe; duct; hose; tube (Classifier: 條／条 c)
4. guttural

Synonyms

See also

• 咽 (yān, “pharynx”)

Compounds

Descendants

• → Proto-Tai: *ɣoːᴬ
  • Ahom: 𑜁𑜦𑜡 (khō) or 𑜁𑜞𑜦𑜡 (khrō)
  • Lao: ຄໍ (khǭ)
  • Saek: กฺ๊อ
  • Shan: ၶေႃး (kháu)
  • Thai: คอ (kɔɔ)
  • Zhuang: hoz

References

• “喉”, 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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kun: のど (nodo, 喉, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 咽(いん)喉(こう) (inkō, “throat”)

Etymology 1

/nomito/ > /nomto/ > /nomdo/ > /nondo/ > /nodo/.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) の​ど (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

喉(のど) • (nodo) 

1. throat
2. (printing, of a page) the inside margin, whichever vertical margin that is adjacent to the spine of the book

   Antonym: 小口

   Hypernym: マージン

Synonyms

• 咽喉(いんこう) (inkō)

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 喉 (huw).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Counter

喉(こう) • (-kō) 

1. counter for fish

Synonyms

• 尾(び) (bi)

Etymology 3

/nomito/ > /nomto/ > /nomdo/ > /nondo/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

喉(のんど) • (nondo) 

1. throat

Etymology 4

From 喉(のみと) (nomito).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

喉(のみど) • (nomido) 

1. throat
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 57:

     喉吻 下无粉反 口邊也 唇兩邊也 上音呉 訓乃美土

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 5

Compound of 飲み (nomi, “drink”) +‎ 門 (to, “passage”). Nomi is the nominalized form of the verb 飲む (nomu, “to drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

喉(のみと) • (nomito) 

1. throat
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki, page 81:

     咽咀 上於見反 咽倭云能美等 咀嚼也 咀才與反 倭言久不

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Unknown (794) Yoshinori Kobayashi, editor, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (Kojisho Ongi Shūsei) (in Japanese), volume 1, Kyūko Shoin, published 1978, →ISBN.
• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 喉 (MC huw).

Recorded as Middle Korean ᅘᅮᇢ (Yale: hhwuw) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 후 (hwu) (Yale: hwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

喉

Wikisource

喉 (eumhun 목구멍 후 (mokgumeong hu))

1. Hanja form^? of 후 (“throat, gullet, larynx; guttural”).

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.

Okinawan

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ぬーでぃー (nūdī, 喉)

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 喉 (nodo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

喉(ぬーでぃー) (nūdī) 

1. throat

Derived terms

• 喉(ぬーでぃー)弦(じる) (nūdījiru, “vocal cords”)

References

• “ぬーでぃー【喉】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Vietnamese

Han character

喉: Hán Nôm readings: hầu

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