后
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See also: 後
Translingual[edit]
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Han character[edit]
后 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹一口 (HMR), four-corner 72261, composition ⿸𠂋口)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 176, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3298
- Dae Jaweon: page 393, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 580, character 1
- Unihan data for U+540E
Chinese[edit]
Glyph origin[edit]
厂 (to announce) + 一 + 口 (a mouth). It represents the powerful ruler giving orders.
Etymology 1[edit]
| For pronunciation and definitions of 后 – see 後 ("after"). (This term, 后, is the simplified form of 後.) |
Notes:
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Etymology 2[edit]
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| simp. and trad. |
后 | |
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-gaw (“head”). Cognate with Tibetan གོ (go, “head; headman”), མགོ (mgo, “head, top, beginning”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): hau6
- Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): heu
- Min Dong (BUC): hâiu
- Min Nan (POJ): hō͘
- Wu (WT Romanisation): hheu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: hou4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: how
- IPA (key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹/
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(file)
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: hau6
- Yale: hauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: hau6
- IPA (key): /hɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- Romanisations:
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: heu
- IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /he̯u⁵⁵/
- Romanisations:
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: hâiu
- IPA (key): /hɑu²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- WT Romanisation: hheu (T3)
- IPA (key): /ɦɜ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Middle Chinese pronunciation (后, reconstructed) | ||||||
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| Character (后), Pronunciation 1/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 匣 (33) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 胡口切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /ɦəuX/ | /ɣə̯uX/ | /ɣuX/ | /ɦəuX/ | /ɦəwX/ | /ɣəuX/ | /ɣəuX/ |
| Character (后), Pronunciation 2/2 | ||||||
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Initial: 匣 (33) |
Openness: Open |
Fanqie: 胡遘切 | ||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
Bernard Karlgren |
Li Rong |
Pan Wuyun |
Edwin Pulleyblank |
Wang Li |
Shao Rongfen |
| /ɦəuH/ | /ɣə̯uH/ | /ɣuH/ | /ɦəuH/ | /ɦəwH/ | /ɣəuH/ | /ɣəuH/ |
| Old Chinese pronunciation (后, reconstructed) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Character | Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 后 | hòu | ‹ huwX › | /*ɢˤ(r)oʔ/ | sovereign; queen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:
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| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | No. | Phonetic component |
Rime group |
Rime subdivision |
Corresponding MC rime |
Old Chinese | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 后 | 5168 | 后 | 侯 | 0 | 厚 | /*ɡoːʔ/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 后 | 5172 | 后 | 侯 | 0 | 𠋫 | /*ɡoːs/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definitions[edit]
后
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
后
Readings[edit]
- Goon: ぐ (gu) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: こう (kō)
- Kan’yōon: ご (go) (non-Jōyō reading), ごう (gō) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kun: きさき (kisaki) (non-Jōyō reading), きさい (kisai) (non-Jōyō reading)
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
| 后 |
| きさき Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi |
Unknown. Possibly originally a contraction of 君幸 (kimi saki, literally “lordly good fortune”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Kun'yomi
- (Tokyo) きさき [kìsáꜜkì] (Nakadaka - [2])[1]
- (Tokyo) きさき [kìsákí] (Heiban - [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [kisa̠ki]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
后 (hiragana きさき, romaji kisaki)
Synonyms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
| 后 |
| きさい Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi |
/kisaki/ → /kisai/
Sound shift from kisaki above. Appears to be less common in isolation than the kisaki reading above.[2][1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
后 (hiragana きさい, romaji kisai)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
后 (hu) (hangeul 후, McCune-Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)
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Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
后 (hậu)
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