謳

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See also: 𧦅 and 讴
謳 U+8B33, 謳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B33
← 謲
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 謴 →

Translingual

Traditional 謳
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𧦅
Simplified 讴

Han character

謳 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜口尸口口 (YRSRR), four-corner 01616, composition ⿰訁區)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1178, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35885
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1642, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4011, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+8B33

Chinese

trad. 謳
simp. 讴
alternative forms 歐／欧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 謳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qoː) : semantic 言 + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo)

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 謳
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏侯切
Baxter 'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəw/
Li
Rong 		/ʔu/
Wang
Li 		/əu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		au1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 謳
Reading # 1/1
No. 10582
Phonetic
component 		區
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		謳
Old
Chinese 		/*qoː/

Definitions

謳

  1. to sing
  2. (literary) song; folk song
  3. (literary) to extol; to sing praises
  4. (literary) to chant
  5. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

𧦅

Kyūjitai

謳

Kanji

謳

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𧦅)

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Readings

  • Go-on: う (u)
  • Kan-on: おう (ō)
  • Kun: うたう (utau, 謳う)←うたふ (utafu, 謳ふ, historical)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
謳
うた
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 謳 – see the following entry.
【歌うた】2
(music) a song
(poetry) poetry
Alternative spellings
唄, 詩
(This term, 謳, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

謳 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

謳: Hán Nôm readings: âu

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