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厚

厚

厚 U+539A, 厚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-539A
← 厙
[U+5399] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 厛 →
[U+539B]

Translingual

Han character

厚 (radical 27 厂+7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一日弓木 (MAND), four-corner 71247, composition ⿸厂⿱日子)

References

  • KangXi: page 161, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2949
  • Dae Jaweon: page 368, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 72, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+539A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 厚
alt. forms 垕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 厚
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 厂 + 𣆪.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 厚
Mandarin Beijing /xou⁵¹/
Harbin /xou⁵³/
Tianjin /xou⁵³/
Jinan /xou²¹/
Qingdao /xou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xou³¹²/
Xi'an /xou⁴⁴/
Xining /xɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /xəu¹³/
Lanzhou /xou¹³/
Ürümqi /xɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /xəu³⁵/
Chengdu /xəu¹³/
Guiyang /xəu²¹³/
Kunming /xəu²¹²/
Nanjing /xəɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /xɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xəu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xəu³⁵/
Hohhot /xəu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɤ²³/
Suzhou /ɦɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦei¹³/
Wenzhou /gau³⁵/
/ɦau³⁵/
Hui Shexian /xiu³⁵/
Tunxi /ɕiu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xəu⁵⁵/
/xəu¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɦəɯ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /hɛu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /heu⁵³/
Taoyuan /heu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐu²³/
Nanning /hɐu²⁴/
Hong Kong /hɐu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hɔ²²/
/kau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ke⁴²/
/xe⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hɔu³³/
/hɔu³⁵/
/kau³³/
Rime
Character 厚 厚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 胡口切 胡遘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦəuX/ /ɦəuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦəwX/ /ɦəwH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuX/ /ɣuH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣəuX/ /ɣəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣə̯uX/ /ɣə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hòu hòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 厚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ huwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.[ɡ]ˤ(r)oʔ/
English thick

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 厚 厚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5176 5177
Phonetic
component		 厚 厚
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 厚 𠋫
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡoːʔ/ /*ɡoːs/

Definitions

厚

  1. thick
  2. large; substantial; deep
  3. rich; strong
  4. generous; kind
  5. thickness; depth
  6. greatly

Antonyms

  • 薄 (báo, “thin”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

厚

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. thick
  2. heavy
  3. kind

Readings

Compounds

  • 厚生 (こうせい) ‎(kōsei)
  • 厚労省 (こうろうしょう) ‎(kōrōshō)
  • 厚労相 (こうろうしょう) ‎(kōrōshō)

Proper noun

厚 ‎(hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

厚 • ‎(hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

厚 (hậu)

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