滬

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See also: 沪
滬 U+6EEC, 滬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EEC
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 滭 →

Translingual

Han character

滬 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水竹尸山 (EHSU) or 水戈尸山 (EISU), four-corner 33117, composition ⿰氵扈)

  1. Shanghai
  2. Suzhou Creek (苏州河), Wusong River (吴淞江) (river near Shanghai)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 643, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18072
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1051, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1731, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6EEC

Chinese

trad. 滬
simp. 沪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷaːʔ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 扈 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ).

Etymology

Probably a derivation from 互 (OC *ɡaːs, “intertwining”) (Schuessler, 2007). 扈 (OC *ɡʷaːʔ, “to stop; to prevent”) may be the same word (ibid.).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 滬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 侯古切
Baxter huX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦuoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦuoX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦɔX/
Li
Rong 		/ɣoX/
Wang
Li 		/ɣuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɣuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		hù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wu6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 滬
Reading # 1/1
No. 5302
Phonetic
component 		戸
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		戸
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷaːʔ/
Notes 水名古作扈，唐人用同簄

Definitions

滬

  1. † weir; bamboo fence for catching fish
  2. Shanghai
    滬語／沪语  ―  Hùyǔ  ―  Shanghainese
  3. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

滬

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: ぐ (gu)、ご (go)
  • Kan-on: こ (ko)
  • Kun: えり (eri, 滬)、あじろ (ajiro, 滬)

Korean

Hanja

滬 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

滬: Hán Nôm readings: hộ, hỗ

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