吳
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Translingual
| Traditional | 吳 |
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| Shinjitai | 呉 |
| Simplified | 吴 |
Han character
吳 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓大 (RVNK), four-corner 26801, composition ⿺夨口)
References
- KangXi: page 179, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
- Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 595, character 8
- Unihan data for U+5433
Chinese
| trad. | 吳/吴* | |
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| simp. | 吴* | |
| alt. forms | 呉 𠯵 㕦 𡗾 𡗿 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 吳 | |||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (吳) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 吳 | *ŋʷaː |
| 蜈 | *ŋʷaː |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 夨 (“man with tilted head”) – to speak loudly.
Etymology 1
Perhaps related to Tibetan ངར་སྐད (ngar skad, “roar; shout”), Tibetan ང་རོ (nga ro, “roar; yell; shout”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
Definitions
吳
- † to speak loudly; to shout
- 不吳不敖，胡考之休。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Bù wú bù áo, hú kǎo zhī xiū. [Pinyin]
- There is no noise, no insolence: An auspice, [all this], of great longevity.
不吴不敖，胡考之休。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- † big
- (historical) (～國) one of the Warring States
- (historical) (～國) Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms
- the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
- Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese
- ⇒ 吳語
- A surname.
- (～港) a harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Descendants
Compounds
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Definitions
吳
- Alternative form of 虞 (yú).
Japanese
Kanji
吳
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Readings
Usage notes
This character lacks JIS support. The character 呉 (U+5449) is used instead in Japanese.
Korean
Hanja
吳 • (o, ho) (hangeul 오, 호, McCune–Reischauer o, ho)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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