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貨
貨
See also: 货
Translingual
Han character
貨 (radical 154 貝+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人心月山金 (OPBUC), four-corner 24806, composition ⿱化貝)
Descendants
See also
References
- KangXi: page 1205, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36678
- Dae Jaweon: page 1667, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3627, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8CA8
Chinese
| trad. | 貨 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 货 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 貨
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|---|---|---|
| Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (化) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 訛 | *ŋʷaːl |
| 吪 | *ŋʷaːl |
| 鈋 | *ŋʷaːl |
| 囮 | *lu, *ŋʷaːl |
| 魤 | *ŋʷaːl |
| 靴 | *hʷa |
| 貨 | *hŋʷaːls |
| 花 | *hʷraː |
| 化 | *hŋʷraːls |
| 杹 | *hŋʷraːls |
| 匕 | *pilʔ, *hŋʷraːls |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hŋʷaːls) : phonetic 化 (OC *hŋʷraːls) + semantic 貝 (“shell, money”) – valuable goods.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄛˋ
- Wade-Giles: ho4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huoh
- IPA (key): /xu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fo3, fo6
- Yale: fo, foh
- Cantonese Pinyin: fo3, fo6
- IPA (key): /fɔː³³/, /fɔː²²/
- (Taishanese, Taicheng)
- Wiktionary: fo1
- IPA (key): /fᵘɔ³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fo
- Hakka Romanization System: fo
- Hagfa Pinyim: fo4
- IPA: /fo⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hè
- Tâi-lô: hè
- Phofsit Daibuun: hex
- IPA (Xiamen): /he²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /he¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Lukang, Sanxia, Kinmen, Hsinchu)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hèr
- Tâi-lô: hèr
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hə⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Yilan, Tainan, Kaohsiung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòe
- Tâi-lô: huè
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoex
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hue²¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Kaohsiung)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hò
- Tâi-lô: hò
- Phofsit Daibuun: hoix
- IPA (Xiamen): /hɤ²¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Taipei)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hòⁿ
- Tâi-lô: hònn
- Phofsit Daibuun: hvox
- IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ̃²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ̃⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ̃²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /hɔ̃¹¹/
- Note: hè/hèr/hòe - vernacular; hò/hòⁿ - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: huê3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huè
- IPA (key): /hue²¹³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei, Magong, Hsinchu, Taichung)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 戈 (95) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 呼臥切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/huɑH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/huɑH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xuɑH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/hwaH/ |
| Li Rong |
/xuɑH/ |
| Wang Li |
/xuɑH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xuɑH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
huò |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 貨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5325 |
| Phonetic component |
化 |
| Rime group |
歌 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
貨 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hŋʷaːls/ |
Definitions
貨
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Japanese
Kanji
貨
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
貨 • (hwa) (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
貨 (hoá)
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