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U+5589, 喉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5589

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓大 (RONK), four-corner 67034, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 197, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3913
  • Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 657, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5589

Chinese

trad.
simp. #
alternative forms
𦞈
𦞕

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡoː) : semantic (mouth) + phonetic (OC *ɡoː).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku (neck; throat) (STEDT); compare Chepang गुक् (throat) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *kɔʔ (neck), whence Mon ကံ (kaʹ, neck), Khmer (kɑɑ, neck), Vietnamese cổ (neck) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • hô͘/hiô - literary;
  • âu - vernacular.
Note: ao6 - alternative pronunciation in 喉嚨.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter huw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəw/
Li
Rong
/ɣu/
Wang
Li
/ɣəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hóu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hau4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ huw ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁ(r)o/
English throat

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5140
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoː/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) larynx
  2. (by extension) throat; gullet
  3. (Cantonese) pipe; duct; hose; tube (Classifier: c)
  4. guttural

Synonyms

See also

  • (yān, “pharynx”)

Compounds

Descendants

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: (gu)
  • Kan-on: こう (, Jōyō)
  • Kun: のど (nodo, , Jōyō)
Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
のど
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling

/nomito/ > /nomto/ > /nomdo/ > /nondo/ > /nodo/.

Pronunciation

Noun

(のど) (nodo

  1. throat
  2. (printing, of a page) the inside margin, whichever vertical margin that is adjacent to the spine of the book
    Antonym: 小口
    Hypernym: マージン
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (huw).

Pronunciation

Counter

(こう) (-kō

  1. counter for fish
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling

/nomito/ > /nomto/ > /nomdo/ > /nondo/.

Pronunciation

Noun

(のんど) (nondo

  1. throat

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling

From (のみと) (nomito).

Pronunciation

Noun

(のみど) (nomido

  1. throat

Etymology 5

Kanji in this term
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling

Compound of 飲み (nomi, drink) +‎ (to, passage). Nomi is the nominalized form of the verb 飲む (nomu, to drink).

Pronunciation

Noun

(のみと) (nomito

  1. throat

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC huw).

Recorded as Middle Korean ᅘᅮᇢ (Yale: hhwuw) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean (hwu) (Yale: hwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 목구멍 (mokgumeong hu))

  1. hanja form? of (throat, gullet, larynx; guttural)

Compounds

References

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

Okinawan

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
ぬーでぃー
Grade: S

From Proto-Ryukyuan *nodoe, a blend of *nodo and *noboe. Cognate with Japanese (nodo).

Pronunciation

Noun

(ぬーでぃー) (nūdī

  1. throat

Derived terms

References

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: hầu

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