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Translingual
Stroke order
Note the regionally different forms of this character which are encoded separately in Unicode :
戶 (top stroke connects to left stroke, as found in the historical Kangxi dictionary ) - used in Taiwan and South Korea.
戸 (top stroke is a horizontal line that does not connect to other strokes) - used in Japan.
户 (top stroke is a slanting dot) - used in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
Note also the different stroke order: 户 and 戸 have the leftmost 丿 as the final (fourth) stroke, while 戶 (this character) has 丿 as the second stroke.
Han character
戶 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶 +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸 (HS ), four-corner 30277 , composition ⿸𠂆 コ )
Kangxi radical #63, ⼾ .
Shuowen Jiezi radical №437
Derived characters
Further reading
Kangxi Dictionary: page 414 , character 32
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11696
Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2257, character 1
Unihan data for U+6236
Chinese
Glyph origin
Old Chinese
妒
*tqaːs
雇
*kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
顧
*kʷaːs
戽
*qʰʷaːʔ, *qʰʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
戶
*ɡʷaːʔ
扈
*ɡʷaːʔ
帍
*ɡʷaːʔ
昈
*ɡʷaːʔ
滬
*ɡʷaːʔ
簄
*ɡʷaːʔ
齭
*skʰraʔ, *sqʰraʔ
所
*sqʰraʔ
Pictogram (象形 ) : one-half of 門 (“gate”). The character in its original form is similar to 𠁣 .
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j ( “ mouth; opening; spread; door; face; jaw ” ) . Cognate with Tibetan སྒོ ( sgo , “ door ” ) .
Pronunciation
Mandarin
(Standard )
(Pinyin ) : hù (hu4 )
(Zhuyin ) : ㄏㄨˋ
(Chengdu , Sichuanese Pinyin ) : fu4 / hu4
(Dungan , Cyrillic and Wiktionary ) : хў (hw, II) / хў (hw, I)
Cantonese
(Guangzhou –Hong Kong , Jyutping ) : wu6
(Taishan , Wiktionary ) : fu5
Gan (Wiktionary ) : fu5
Hakka
(Sixian , PFS ) : fu
(Meixian , Guangdong ) : fu1 / fu4
Jin (Wiktionary ) : hu3
Northern Min (KCR ) : hū
Eastern Min (BUC ) : hô
Southern Min
(Hokkien , POJ ) : hō͘ / hǒ͘
(Teochew , Peng'im ) : hou6
Wu (Shanghai , Wugniu ) : 6 wu
Xiang (Changsha , Wiktionary ) : fu5 / fu4
Note :
fu5 - vernacular;
fu4 - literary.
Baxter –Sagart system 1.1 (2014 )
Character
戶
戶
Reading #
1/2
2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
hù
hù
Middle Chinese
‹ huX ›
‹ huX ›
Old Chinese
/*m-qˁaʔ/
/*m-qˁaʔ/
English
to stop, to check
door
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
戶
Reading #
1/1
No.
5296
Phonetic component
戸
Rime group
魚
Rime subdivision
0
Corresponding MC rime
戸
Old Chinese
/*ɡʷaːʔ/
Definitions
戶
† door
戶 外/ 户 外 ― hù wài ― outdoors
⁜ family ; household
戶 籍/ 户 籍 ― hù jí ― household register
專業戶 / 专业户 ― zhuānyèhù ― expert (literally, “family which engages in a specialized trade”)
釘子戶 / 钉子户 ― dìngzǐhù ― nail house
Classifier for households .
( only in compounds ) bank account
賬戶 / 账户 ― zhànghù ― account
開戶 / 开户 ― kāihù ― to open an account
a surname
Compounds
Descendants
Others :
Japanese
Kanji
戶
(Hyōgai kanji , kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 戸 )
door
Readings
Usage notes
This character lacks JIS support; 戸 (U+6238) is used instead.
Korean
Hanja
戶 (eumhun 지게문 호 ( jigemun ho ) )
house
hole
Vietnamese
Han character
戶 : Hán Nôm readings: hộ
chữ Hán form of hộ ( “ household ; door ” ) .
Compounds