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喉
喉
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Translingual
Han character
喉 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓大 (RONK), four-corner 67034, composition ⿰口侯)
References
- KangXi: page 197, character 31
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3913
- Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 4
- Unihan data for U+5589
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
喉 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (侯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 緱 | *koː, *koː |
| 侯 | *ɡoː |
| 喉 | *ɡoː |
| 猴 | *ɡoː |
| 瘊 | *ɡoː |
| 篌 | *ɡoː |
| 糇 | *ɡoː |
| 帿 | *ɡoː |
| 睺 | *ɡoː, *ɡoːs |
| 矦 | *ɡoː |
| 餱 | *ɡoː |
| 翭 | *ɡoː |
| 葔 | *ɡoː |
| 鄇 | *ɡoː, *ɡoːs |
| 鍭 | *ɡoː, *ɡoːs |
| 鯸 | *ɡoː |
| 候 | *ɡoːs |
| 堠 | *ɡoːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡoː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː) – connected to the mouth, the throat.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: hou2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hour
- IPA (key): /xoʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hau4
- Yale: hàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: hau4
- IPA (key): /hɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âu
- Tâi-lô: âu
- Phofsit Daibuun: aau
- IPA (Xiamen): /aʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /aʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /aʊ¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /aʊ²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /aʊ²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: hheu (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦɜ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 喉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 戸鉤切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɦəu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɦəu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɣəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ɦəw/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɣu/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɣəu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ɣə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
hóu |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 喉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
hóu |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ huw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[ɡ]ˤ(r)o/ |
| English | throat |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 喉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5140 |
| Phonetic component |
侯 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
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| Old Chinese |
/*ɡoː/ |
Definitions
喉
See also
- 咽 (yān, “pharynx”)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
Readings
Compounds
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 喉 |
|
のど Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo > nodo.
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Noun
Synonyms
- 咽喉 (inkō)
Etymology 2
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 喉 |
|
こう Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
From Middle Chinese 喉 (huw).
Pronunciation
Counter
喉 (hiragana こう, romaji -kō)
- counter for fish
Synonyms
- 尾 (bi)
Etymology 3
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 喉 |
| Grade: S |
| Irregular |
nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo.
Pronunciation
- (Irregular reading)
- IPA(key): [nõ̞ndo̞]
Alternative forms
Noun
喉 (hiragana のんど, romaji nondo)
Etymology 4
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 喉 |
| Grade: S |
| Irregular |
From 喉 (nomito).
Pronunciation
- (Irregular reading)
- IPA(key): [no̞mido̞]
Alternative forms
Noun
喉 (hiragana のみど, romaji nomido)
- throat
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 57)
- 喉吻 下无粉反 口邊也 唇兩邊也 上音呉 訓乃美土
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 57)
Etymology 5
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 喉 |
| Grade: S |
| Irregular |
Compound of 飲み (nomi, “drink”) + 門 (to, “passage”). nomi is the nominalized form of the verb 飲む (nomu, “to drink”).
Pronunciation
- (Irregular reading)
- IPA(key): [no̞mito̞]
Alternative forms
Noun
喉 (hiragana のみと, romaji nomito)
- throat
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 81)
- 咽咀 上於見反 咽倭云能美等 咀嚼也 咀才與反 倭言久不
- 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (page 81)
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
- Yoshinori Kobayashi, Kojisho Ongi Shūsei 1: Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki (in Japanese), Kyūko Shoin (published 1978; original text from 794), ISBN 4-7629-3088-1.
- Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 978-4-490-30010-9.
Korean
Hanja
喉 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)
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Okinawan
Kanji
喉 (hiragana ぬーでぃー, romaji nūdī)
Etymology
Cognate with mainland Japanese 喉 (nodo).
Noun
喉 (hiragana ぬーでぃー, romaji nūdī)
Derived terms
- 喉弦 (ぬーでぃーじる, nūdījiru, “vocal cords”)
Vietnamese
Han character
喉 (hầu)
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