噓

See also: 嘘

噓	U+5653, 噓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5653

← 噒
[U+5652]

CJK Unified Ideographs

噔 →
[U+5654]

Translingual

Japanese	嘘
Simplified	嘘
Traditional	噓

Han character

噓 (radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口卜心一 (RYPM), four-corner 6101₇, composition ⿰口虛)

Descendants

嘘

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 209, character 15

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4206

Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 8

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 675, character 12

Unihan data for U+5653

Chinese

trad.		噓
simp.		嘘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 噓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 虛 (OC *kʰa, *qʰa) – to exhale, blow out from the mouth. Note that 虛 means empty, void, hence connotations of “empty via the mouth”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ
Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: xū
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
  - Wade–Giles: hsü¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
  - IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: heoi¹
  - Yale: hēui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hoey¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: hêu¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: /hɨʌ/, /hɨʌ^H/▼

Rime
Character	噓	噓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	朽居切	許御切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨʌ/	/hɨʌ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/hiɔ/	/hiɔ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/xiɔ/	/xiɔ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɨə̆/	/hɨə̆^H/
Li Rong	/xiɔ/	/xiɔ^H/
Wang Li	/xĭo/	/xĭo^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯wo/	/xi̯wo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xū	xù

Definitions

噓

to slowly exhale
to sigh; to lament
to praise; to flatter
to heat by steam or fire
(Mandarin) hush! shh!

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典)

Japanese

Kanji

噓

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

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Readings

On (unclassified): きょ (kyo)
Kun: ふく (fuku, 噓く); うそ (uso, 噓)

Korean

Hanja

噓 • (heo) (hangeul 허, revised heo, McCune–Reischauer hŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噓 (hờ)

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