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See also:
U+58F0, 声
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-58F0

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes
Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(Kangxi radical 33, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土日竹 (GAH), four-corner 40207, composition 𠃜)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 243, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5645
  • Dae Jaweon: page 483, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 429, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+58F0

Chinese

Etymology 1

Simplified from (elimination of and ). The character itself is a pictogram (象形) of a stone chime. See .

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“sound; noise; voice; music; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“stone chimes; sounding stone; qing; inverted bell”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanjishinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form )

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
こえ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)
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⟨ko2we⟩ → */kəwe//kowe//koe/

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kəwai.

Further derivation unknown.

Pronunciation

Noun

(こえ) (koeこゑ (kowe)?

  1. a voice
  2. an accent
  3. a feedback
  4. (in the form ~の声を聞く (...no koe o kiku), lit. “listenable voice”) a feeling, sound, or tone of something
  5. a voiced sound
  6. (archaic) a Sino-Japanese pronunciation or reading of a Chinese character, as opposed to its (kun) or native Japanese counterpart
Derived terms
Idioms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: 2
kan'on
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese (MC syeng).

Affix

(せい) (sei

  1. voice
  2. speech, word
  3. fame, honor, reputation
  4. Chinese character pronunciation
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
しょう
Grade: 2
goon
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

/sjau//ɕau//ɕɔː//ɕoː/

From Middle Chinese (MC syeng).

Noun

(しょう) (shōしやう (syau)?

  1. a voice, speech
  2. a tone
  3. a variation of stress in pronunciation
  4. Short for 声点 (shōten): a tone mark (in Middle Chinese)
Derived terms

Affix

(しょう) (shōしやう (syau)?

  1. voice, sound
  2. expression, speech
  3. tone (in Chinese linguistics)
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kojima, Noriyuki with Arai Eizō (1989) [905] Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 5: Kokin Wakashū (in Japanese), Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  4. ^ Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Mary Catherine Henkenius (1996) Kokinshū - A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern, page 29

Okinawan

Kanji

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
くぃー
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

Cognate with modern Japanese (koe).

Pronunciation

Noun

(くぃー) (kwī

  1. a voice
  2. a news, word, or something said (of someone)
    (くぃー)()ちゅん
    kwī chichun
    to hear (about somebody), to hear word (of someone), to catch wind (of someone)

Derived terms

References

  • くぃー【声】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.