呼

Stroke order

呼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 6204₉, composition ⿰口乎)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3471
• Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 605, character 2
• Unihan data for U+547C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔaːw (“to shout, cry out”). Cognate with Burmese အော် (au, “to shout, berate”), as well as with the following Sinitic words (STEDT):

• 嚆 (“to make noise”)
• 嚎 (“to howl, bawl”)
• 呴 (OC *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos, “to breathe on, yawn, roar”)
• 呵 (OC *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls, “to shout, cry out”)

呼

1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
2. to shout; to yell
3. to call (someone); to address
4. (onomatopoeia, of wind) howling
5. (Chinese phonetics) medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口／开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合／开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)

• (antonym(s) of “to breathe out”): 吸 (xī)

呼

1. ^† Alternative form of 詨／𰵦 (xiào, “to shout”)

呼

1. ^† Alternative form of 吁 (“sigh (expression of fatigue)”)

呼

1. ^† Expression of anger.

呼

1. ^‡ Alternative form of 罅 (xià, “crack; rift”)

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. call
2. call out to
3. invite

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kun: よぶ (yobu, 呼ぶ, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu).

• IPA^(key):

呼(こ) • (ko) 

1. to breathe out, to exhale, to sigh
2. to shout, to yell
3. to call (someone), to address

• 呼吸 (kokyū, “breath, breathing”)
• 歓呼 (kanko, “cheer, shout”)
• 呼号 (kogō, “shout, proclaim”)
• 呼称 (koshō, “name, designation, form of address”)
• 呼格 (kokaku, “vocative case”)

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu). Recorded as Middle Korean 호 (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

呼

Wikisource

呼 (eumhun 부를 호 (bureul ho))

1. hanja form^? of 호 (“to call; to shout”)
2. hanja form^? of 호 (“to exhale; to breathe out”)

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

呼: Hán Nôm readings: hô, há, hao, hào

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.