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午

午

午 U+5348, 午
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5348
← 升
[U+5347] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卉 →
[U+5349]
See also: 牛 and 干

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

午 (radical 24 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人十 (OJ) or X人十 (XOJ), four-corner 80400, composition ⿱𠂉十)

  1. noon
  2. seventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支): horse (馬) of Chinese zodiac

References

  • KangXi: page 156, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2703
  • Dae Jaweon: page 354, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 406, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5348

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 午

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 午
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (午) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卸 *sŋjaːs
汻 *hŋaːŋʔ
滸 *hŋaːʔ
午 *ŋaːʔ
仵 *ŋaːʔ
旿 *ŋaːʔ
忤 *ŋaːs
迕 *ŋaːs
杵 *ŋ̥ʰjaʔ
籞 *ŋaʔ
蘌 *ŋaʔ
篽 *ŋaʔ
禦 *ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許 *hŋaʔ
御 *ŋas

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 午
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 疑古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋuoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋuoX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɔX/
Li
Rong		 /ŋoX/
Wang
Li		 /ŋuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 午 午
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǔ wǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nguX › ‹ nguX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m].qʰˤaʔ/ /*m-qʰˤaʔ/
English 7th earthly branch resist; cross-wise

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 午
Reading # 1/1
No. 13169
Phonetic
component		 午
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 五
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋaːʔ/

Noun

午

  1. the seventh earthly branch:
    1. (historical or astrology) the seventh year of the Jovian orbital cycle
    2. (literary) seventh
    3. (archaic) the fifth month of the Chinese traditional calendar
    4. (historical or archaic) the "Chinese" or "double hour" from 11 am to 1 pm
    5. noon (precisely)

Hypernyms

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

午

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. noon

Readings

Korean

Hanja

午 • ‎(o)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 오 (revised: o, McCune-Reischauer: o, Yale: o)
  • Name (hangeul): 낮()
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Vietnamese

Han character

午 (ngọ, ngỏ, ngõ)

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