呉

See also: 吳, 県, and 吴
呉 U+5449, 呉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5449
← 呈
[U+5448] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 告 →
[U+544A]

Translingual

Traditional 吳
Shinjitai 呉
Simplified 吴

Glyph origin

Variant of 吳.

The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

呉 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓金 (RVNC), composition ⿳⿺𠃑口一八)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 1, page 595, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5449

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 呉 – see 吳 (“to speak loudly; to shout; big; etc.”).
(This character, 呉, is a variant form of 吳.)

Japanese

Kanji

呉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. China
  2. to give something, to do something for someone

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
呉
ご
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 吳 (ngu, name of a state). Compare modern Mandarin 吳／吴 (Wú).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

呉 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 吳, hiragana ご, rōmaji Go)

  1. Japanese reading of the Chinese surname Wu.
  2. the ancient State of Wu
  3. China, Chinese
    More commonly found in compounds in modern Japanese.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
呉
くれ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 暮れる (kureru, “to set (said of the sun or moon), to get dark”), from the way that China lies to the west of Japan, in the direction of the setting sun.[1] Originally referred more specifically to the ancient State of Wu (roughly analogous with the modern Jiangnan region), and later referring to China as a whole.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

呉 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 吳, hiragana くれ, rōmaji Kure)

  1. (archaic) China, Chinese
    More commonly found in compounds in modern Japanese.
  2. a place name, such as that of Kure City in Hiroshima Prefecture
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 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
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