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歐

歐

See also: 欧

Translingual

Shinjitai 欧
Simplified 欧
Traditional 歐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 歐
Large seal script 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, OC *qoː, *qoːʔ) : phonetic 區 ‎(OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 欠.

Han character

歐 (radical 76 欠+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口弓人 (SRNO), four-corner 77782, composition ⿰區欠)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 571, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16185
  • Dae Jaweon: page 959, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2149, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6B50

Chinese

trad. 歐
simp. 欧

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 歐
Mandarin Beijing /ou⁵⁵/
Harbin /ou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /nou²¹/
Jinan /ŋou²¹³/
Qingdao /ɣou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ou²⁴/
Xi'an /ŋou²¹/
Xining /nɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /əu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ou³¹/
Ürümqi /ɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ŋəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ŋəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ŋəu⁵⁵/
/əu⁵⁵/ 新
Kunming /əu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /əɯ³¹/
Hefei /ʐɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣəu¹¹/
Pingyao /ŋəu¹³/
Hohhot /ŋəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /ɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔei³³/
Wenzhou /au³³/
Hui Shexian /niu³¹/
/ŋiu³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋəu³³/
Xiangtan /ŋəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ŋiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /eu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /eu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ɐu⁵³/
Nanning /ɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ɐu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ɔ⁵⁵/
/au⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /eu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /e⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /au³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ɔu²³/
Rime
Character 歐 歐
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 烏侯切 烏后切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔəu/ /ʔəuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔəu/ /ʔəuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔəu/ /ʔəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəw/ /ʔəwX/
Li
Rong		 /ʔu/ /ʔuX/
Wang
Li		 /əu/ /əuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔə̯u/ /ʔə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ōu ǒu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 歐 歐
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10583 10599
Phonetic
component		 區 區
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 謳 歐
Old
Chinese		 /*qoː/ /*qoːʔ/

Definitions

歐

  1. A surname​.
  2. Short for 歐羅巴／欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā, “Europe”).
  3. ohm

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 歐 – see 嘔 (“to vomit”).
(This character, 歐, is a variant form of 嘔.)

Japanese

Kanji

歐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 欧)

  1. Europe

Readings

Korean

Hanja

歐 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

歐 (âu)

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