号

See also 號

Translingual

Han character

号 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口一女尸 (RMVS))

1. mark, sign
2. symbol
3. number

References

• KangXi: page 174, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3256
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 570, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53F7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

号 (traditional 號, Yale hou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

号 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ごう (gō)
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu), よびな (yobina)

Compounds

• 号外
• 号泣
• 号数
• 号令
• 番号
• 暗号

Noun

号 (hiragana ごう, romaji gō)

1. number

Suffix

号 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai 號, hiragana ごう, romaji -gō)

1. ordinal marker, often with prefix 第. It's used like -st, -nd, -rd, -th in English.

   (第)六号

   (だい)ろくごう

   (dai)-roku gō

   (The) 6th

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Korean

Hanja

号 (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

号 (traditional 號, pinyin hào (hao4), háo (hao2), Wade-Giles hao², hao⁴)

Noun

号 (simplified, Pinyin hào, traditional 號)

1. number, date, mark, sign, symbol
2. (literary) brass wind instrument

   小号 (trumpet)