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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (mouth) + phonetic  – connected to the mouth, the throat.

[edit] Han character

(radical 30 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓大 (RONK), four-corner 67034)

  1. throat, gullet, larynx
  2. guttural

[edit] Synonyms

  • (throat):

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 197, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3913
  • Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 657, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5589

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale hau4)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

Compound of nomi (drink) and to (passage). nomi is is the nominalized form the for verb nom- (to drink).

[edit] Noun

(hiragana のみと, romaji nomito)

  1. throat

[edit] Etymology 2

From nomito (id).

[edit] Noun

(hiragana のみど, romaji nomido)

  1. throat

[edit] Etymology 3

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana のんど, romaji nondo)

  1. throat

[edit] Etymology 4

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo > nodo.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana のど, romaji nodo)

  1. throat

[edit] Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Etymology 5

[edit] Counter

(hiragana こう, romaji )

  1. counter for fish
[edit] Synonyms
  •  (び, bi)

[edit] References


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin hóu (hou2), Wade-Giles hou2)

[edit] Compounds

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