沃

沃 U+6C83, 沃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C83
← 沂
[U+6C82] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 沄 →
[U+6C84]

Translingual

Han character

沃 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水竹大 (EHK), four-corner 32134, composition ⿰氵夭)

  1. water, irrigate
  2. fertile, rich

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 609, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17184
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1566, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6C83

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 沃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笑 *sqʰows
夭 *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
镺 *qoːwʔ, *qoːws
芺 *qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
妖 *qrow
祅 *qrow
枖 *qrow
訞 *qrow
殀 *qrowʔ
仸 *qrowʔ
妋 *pa, *qu
飫 *qos
沃 *qoːwɢ
鋈 *qoːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːwɢ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ) – to irrigate with water.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ak - vernacular;
  • ok - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 沃
Mandarin Beijing /uo⁵¹/
Harbin /uo⁵³/
Tianjin /uo⁵³/
Jinan /və²¹³/
Qingdao /və⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uo²⁴/
Xi'an /u²¹/
Xining /v̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /və¹³/
Lanzhou /vu¹³/
Ürümqi /vɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /uo²¹³/
Chengdu /o³¹/
Guiyang /o²¹/
Kunming /o³¹/
Nanjing /uʔ⁵/
Hefei /uɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /vəʔ²/
Pingyao /vʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /vaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /oʔ⁵/
Suzhou /oʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /o²¹³/
Hui Shexian /uʔ²¹/
/uaʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋo²⁴/
Xiangtan /o²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /fok̚¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jok̚⁵/
Nanning /juk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jok̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ɔk̚³²/
/ak̚³²/ 澆水
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ok̚²/
/ak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ok̚⁵/
/ak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 沃
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏酷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔawk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔok̚/
Wang
Li		 /uok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 沃
Reading # 1/1
No. 14637
Phonetic
component		 夭
Rime
group		 藥
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 沃
Old
Chinese		 /*qoːwɢ/

Definitions

沃

  1. to water
  2. to soak
  3. fertile
  4. lush
  5. tame
  6. low
  7. white
  8. a river in Shanxi
  9. Short for 曲沃.
  10. Alternative form of 飫 (yù).
  11. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 以湯沃沸／以汤沃沸
  • 以湯沃雪／以汤沃雪
  • 以飴沃釜／以饴沃釜
  • 啟沃／启沃
  • 如湯沃雪／如汤沃雪
  • 沃土 (wòtǔ)
  • 沃果兒／沃果儿
  • 沃沃
  • 沃腴
  • 沃衍
  • 沃野
  • 沃野千里
  • 沃饒／沃饶
  • 肥沃 (féiwò)
  • 肥沃月灣／肥沃月湾
  • 衍沃
  • 表沃夫
  • 饒沃／饶沃

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沃 – see 澳 (“inlet, bay; dock, bank; etc.”).
(This character, 沃, is the second-round simplified form of 澳.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

沃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

沃 • (ok) (hangeul 옥, revised ok, McCune–Reischauer ok, Yale ok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沃 (óc)

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