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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

Han character [edit]

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

  1. throat, gullet, larynx
  2. guttural

Synonyms [edit]

  • (throat):

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale hau4)


Japanese [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

(hiragana のみと, romaji nomito)

  1. throat

Etymology 2 [edit]

From nomito (id).

Noun [edit]

(hiragana のみど, romaji nomido)

  1. throat

Etymology 3 [edit]

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo.

Noun [edit]

(hiragana のんど, romaji nondo)

  1. throat

Etymology 4 [edit]

nomito > nomto > nomdo > nondo > nodo.

Noun [edit]

(hiragana のど, romaji nodo)

  1. throat

Kanji [edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Etymology 5 [edit]

Counter [edit]

(hiragana こう, romaji )

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

References [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin hóu (hou2), Wade-Giles hou2)

Compounds [edit]