渦

渦 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月月口 (EBBR), four-corner 3712₇, composition ⿰氵咼)

• 𥨙

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 634, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17771
• Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1651, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6E26

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kloːl, *qloːl): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

渦

1. whirlpool; eddy; vortex
2. something shaped like a whirlpool; indentation; concavity

   酒渦／酒涡  ―  jiǔwō  ―  dimple

渦

1. Guo River (a river in Henan and Anhui, China)
2. a surname

• “渦”, 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}、わ (wa)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}、わ (wa)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: うず (uzu, 渦, Jōyō)^{←うづ (udu, 渦, historical)}

/kwa/ → /ka/

From Middle Chinese 渦 (MC kwa, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”).

• IPA^(key):

渦(か) • (ka) ^{←くわ (kwa)?}

1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex

This reading is only ever found in compounds.

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

渦

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Vortex

Wikipedia

/udu/ → /udzu/ → /uzu/

From Old Japanese.

• (Tokyo) うず (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

渦(うず) • (uzu) ^{←うづ (udu)?}

1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex
   • Early 700s, 播磨国風土記 (Harima no Kuni Fudoki, “Chronicles of the Country of Harima”)

     絞水(うづ)の淵(ふち)あり。故(かれ)、宇頭(うづ)川(がわ)と号(なづ)く。

     uzu no fuchi ari. Kare, Uzugawa to nazuku.

     There is a deep whirl / eddy pool there. As such, it is called “Uzugawa” (Eddy River).

From Middle Chinese 渦 (MC 'wa).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

渦

Wikisource

渦 (eumhun 소용돌이 와 (soyongdori wa))

1. hanja form^? of 와 (“whirlpool; eddy; vortex”)

From Middle Chinese 渦 (MC kwa).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

渦 (eumhun 강 이름 과 (gang ireum gwa))

1. hanja form^? of 과 (“name of a river”)

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

渦: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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