嚆

嚆 U+5686, 嚆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5686 ← 嚅 [U+5685] CJK Unified Ideographs 嚇 → [U+5687]

Translingual

Han character

嚆 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 口廿卜月 (RTYB), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰口蒿)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 211, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4458
• Dae Jaweon: page 434, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 688, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5686

Chinese

trad.		嚆
simp. #		嚆

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 蒿 (OC *qʰaːw).

Etymology

Probably related to 呼 (OC *qʰaː, “to exhale, shout”); see there for more (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hāo (hao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hao
    • Wade–Giles: hao¹
    • Yale: hāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hau
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou¹
    • Yale: hōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

嚆

1. to shout, to call out

Compounds

• 嚆矢 (hāoshǐ)
• 嚆矢維艱／嚆矢维艰

 

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 84

Japanese

Kanji

嚆

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けう (keu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu, 嚆ぶ)

Compounds

• 嚆矢

Korean

Hanja

嚆 • (hyo) (hangeul 효, revised hyo, McCune–Reischauer hyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嚆: Hán Nôm readings: hau, hao

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References

• Nom Foundation