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渦

渦

See also: 涡

Translingual

Han character

渦 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月月口 (EBBR), four-corner 37127)

  1. swirl, whirlpool, eddy

References

  • KangXi: page 634, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17771
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1651, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6E26

Chinese

trad. 渦
simp. 涡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
碢 *l'oːl
腡 *ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過 *kloːl, *kloːls
渦 *kloːl, *qloːl
鍋 *kloːl
楇 *kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑 *kloːl
緺 *koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝 *kloːl
濄 *kloːl, *qloːl
鐹 *kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖 *kʰloːl
簻 *kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍 *ɡloːlʔ
窩 *qloːl
萵 *qloːl
檛 *kr'oːl
膼 *kr'oːl
蝸 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧 *kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎 *kroːlʔ
剮 *kroːlʔ
諣 *qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄 *kʷroːl
咼 *kʰʷroːl
喎 *kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kloːl, *qloːl) : semantic 水 ‎(“water”) + phonetic 咼 ‎(OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 渦 渦
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 戈 (95) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 古禾切 烏禾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuɑ/ /ʔuɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuɑ/ /ʔuɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑ/ /ʔuɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwa/ /ʔwa/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑ/ /ʔuɑ/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑ/ /uɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuɑ/ /ʔuɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guō wō
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 渦 渦
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4363 4377
Phonetic
component		 冎 冎
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 戈 倭
Old
Chinese		 /*kloːl/ /*qloːl/
Notes 見漢書亦作濄 與蝸同源

Definitions

渦

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Compounds

  • 捲入漩渦／卷入漩涡
  • 梨渦／梨涡
  • 梨頰微渦／梨颊微涡
  • 渦口／涡口
  • 渦河／涡河
  • 渦流／涡流 (wōliú)
  • 盤渦／盘涡
  • 笑渦／笑涡
  • 粉渦／粉涡
  • 翠渦／翠涡
  • 酒渦／酒涡

References

Japanese

Kanji

渦

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
渦
か
Grade: S
on'yomi

/kwa/ → /ka/

From Middle Chinese 渦 ‎(kwa?, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”).

Pronunciation

Affix

渦 ‎(hiragana か, romaji ka, historical hiragana くわ)

  1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex
Usage notes

This reading is only ever found in compounds.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

渦 (uzu): a vortex in colored smoke, caused by the passage of an airplane wing.
Kanji in this term
渦
うず
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/udu/ → /udzu/ → /uzu/

From Old Japanese.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

渦 ‎(hiragana うず, romaji uzu, historical hiragana うづ)

  1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex
    • Early 700s, 播磨国風土記 (Harima no Kuni Fudoki, “Chronicles of the Country of Harima”)
      絞水 (うづ)の淵 (ふち)あり。故 (かれ)、宇頭 (うづ)川 (がわ)と号 (なづ)く
      uzu no fuchi ari. Kare, Uzugawa to nazuku.
      There is a deep whirl / eddy pool there. As such, it is called “Uzugawa” (Eddy River).
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

渦 • ‎(wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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