昊

昊 U+660A, 昊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-660A ← 昉 [U+6609] CJK Unified Ideographs 昋 → [U+660B]

Translingual

Han character

昊 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日一大 (AMK), four-corner 6043₀, composition ⿱日天)

Derived characters

• 𮯽, 淏, 䆨, 𢮚, 𰞮, 𨛴, 𪪙, 𬝫, 𱵸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 491, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13799
• Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1488, character 8
• Unihan data for U+660A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		昊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (昊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
昊	*ɡuːʔ
顥	*ɡuːʔ
灝	*ɡuːʔ, *kuːmʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡuːʔ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : semantic 日 (“sun”) + phonetic 夰 (OC *kuːʔ, *ɡuːʔ, “release”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hào (hao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hor⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ghau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hào
    • Wade–Giles: hao⁴
    • Yale: hàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haw
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou⁶
    • Yale: houh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hor⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɒ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō
    • Tâi-lô: hō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ho⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ho³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ghau
    • MiniDict: ghau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hawX

Rime
Character	昊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡老切
Baxter	hawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦawX/
Li Rong	/ɣɑuX/
Wang Li	/ɣɑuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡuːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	昊
Reading #	1/1
No.	4922
Phonetic component	昊
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	晧
Old Chinese	/*ɡuːʔ/

Definitions

昊

1. vastness (of the sky)
2. a surname

Compounds

• 中昊
• 大昊
• 太昊
• 孔昊
• 少昊
• 昊乾 / 昊干
• 昊天 (hàotiān)
• 昊天不弔 / 昊天不吊
• 昊天恩
• 昊天罔極 / 昊天罔极 (hàotiānwǎngjí)
• 昊昊
• 昊樞 / 昊枢
• 昊穹
• 昊空
• 昊窯 / 昊窑
• 昊英
• 昊蒼 / 昊苍
• 晴昊
• 有昊
• 泰昊
• 清昊
• 炎昊
• 玄昊
• 秋昊
• 穹昊
• 窮昊 / 穷昊
• 蒼昊 / 苍昊
• 軒昊 / 轩昊
• 青昊
• 革昊
• 類昊 / 类昊

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “昊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 87.

Japanese

Kanji

昊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: そら (sora, 昊)
• Nanori: ひろし (hiroshi)

Korean

Hanja

昊 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昊: Hán Nôm readings: hạo

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References

• Nom Foundation