嘯

嘯 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口中難 (RLX), four-corner 6502₇, composition ⿰口肅)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 206, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4246
• Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 694, character 11
• Unihan data for U+562F

Historical forms of the character 嘯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

嘯

1. to whistle

   • 男子入內，不嘯不指，夜行以燭，無燭則止。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     男子入内，不啸不指，夜行以烛，无烛则止。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Nánzǐ rùnèi, bù xiào bù zhǐ, yèxíng yǐ zhú, wú zhú zé zhǐ.

     When a man enters the house, he should neither whistle nor point. When he walks during night, he should use a candle. If he has no candle, he should stop.

2. to howl; to roar; to scream; to cry
3. (Taoism) type of breathing exercise involving vocalizations

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 嘨)

1. to whistle

• Go-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しょう (shō)^{←せう (seu, historical)}
• Kun: うそ (uso, 嘯)、うそふき (usofuki, 嘯)、うそぶ (usobu, 嘯ぶ)、うそぶく (usobuku, 嘯く)、うそぶき (usobuki, 嘯)、うそぶき (usobuki, 嘯き)、うそむ (usomu, 嘯む)、うそむく (usomuku, 嘯く)、ふく (fuku, 嘯く)

From Old Japanese. Appears in poem 1753 of the Man'yōshū, a poetry compilation completed around 759 CE, in the compound form 嘯鳴 (usobuki; see below).

• IPA^(key):

嘯(うそ) • (uso) 

1. (archaic, possibly obsolete) a whistle (sound), a whistling sound

Compound of 嘯 (uso, “whistle, whistling”) +‎ 吹き (fuki, “blowing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 吹く fuku, “to blow”).^[1][2]

• 嘯吹

• (Tokyo) うそふき (Nakadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

嘯(うそふき) • (usofuki) 

1. the clownish “whistling” mask used in 狂言 (kyōgen, “a farce performed between noh plays”, literally “crazy talk”)

• ひょっとこ (hyottoko)

Originally a compound of 嘯 (uso, “whistle, whistling”) +‎ 吹き (fuki, “blowing”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 吹く fuku, “to blow”).^[1][2] The fuki changes to buki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• IPA^(key):

嘯(うそぶき) • (usobuki) 

1. whistling, making a whistling sound

嘯 • (so) (hangeul 소, revised so, McCune–Reischauer so)

1. roar, howl, scream
2. whistle

嘯: Hán Nôm readings: khiếu

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