午

See also: 牛 and 干

Translingual

Han character

午 (radical 24 十+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人十 (OJ), X人十 (XOJ), four-corner 8040₀, composition ⿱𠂉十)

1. noon
2. seventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支): horse (馬) of Chinese zodiac

References

• KangXi: page 156, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2703
• Dae Jaweon: page 354, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 406, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5348

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		午

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): gō͘ / ngó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ng⁵
    • Yale: ńgh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gō͘ / ngó͘
    • Tâi-lô: gō͘ / ngó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /gɔ³³/, /ŋɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /gɔ²²/, /ŋɔ⁵³/
  • Note: gō͘ - vernacular, ngó͘ - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (午, reconstructed)
Character (午), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 疑古切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋuoX/	/ŋuoX/	/ŋoX/	/ŋuoX/	/ŋɔX/	/ŋuX/	/ŋoX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (午, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
午								wǔ								‹ nguX ›								/*[m].qʰˤaʔ/								7th earthly branch
午								wǔ								‹ nguX ›								/*m-qʰˤaʔ/								resist; cross-wise
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
午					13169					午					魚					0					五					/*ŋaːʔ/

Compounds

• 午日

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

午

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ご (go)
• Kan’on: ご (go)
• Kun: うま (uma)

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Korean

Hanja

午 (o)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 오 (revised: o, McCune-Reischauer: o, Yale: o)

• Name (hangeul): 낮()

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Vietnamese

Han character

午 (ngọ, ngỏ, ngõ)

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