怒

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 奴 (“slave”) – angry, a slave to one’s passions.

Han character

怒 (radical 61 心+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女水心 (VEP), four-corner 4733₄, composition ⿱奴心)

1. anger, rage, passion
2. angry

References

• KangXi: page 380, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10439
• Dae Jaweon: page 708, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2282, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6012

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		怒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nù (nu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nù
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nuh
    • IPA ^(key): /nu⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nou⁶
    • Yale: nouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /nou̯²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (怒, reconstructed)
Character (怒), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 奴古切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nuoX/	/nuoX/	/noX/	/nuoX/	/nɔX/	/nuX/	/noX/
Character (怒), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 乃故切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nuoH/	/nuoH/	/noH/	/nuoH/	/nɔH/	/nuH/	/noH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (怒, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
怒								nù								‹ nuX ›								/*C.nˤaʔ/								angry
怒								nù								‹ nuH ›								/*C.nˤaʔ-s/								anger, angry; vigorous
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
怒					9608					女					魚					0					怒					/*naːʔ/
怒					9610					女					魚					0					笯					/*naːs/

Compounds

• 怒不可遏
• 怒潮
• 怒叱
• 怒斥
• 怒冲冲、怒冲冲的
• 怒发冲冠
• 怒放
• 怒号
• 怒喝
• 怒吼
• 怒火
• 怒目
• 怒气、怒氣
• 怒氣沖沖
• 怒容
• 怒色
• 怒视
• 怒涛
• 怒形于色
• 怒族

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Japanese

Kanji

怒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぬ (nu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: ど (do)
• Kun: いかる (ikaru), おこる (okoru)

Compounds

• 怒号 (どごう, dogō)
• 怒張 (どちょう, dochō)
• 怒涛 (どとう, dotō)
• 怒気 (どき, doki)
• 怒髪衝冠 (どはつしょうかん, dohatsushōkan)

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Korean

Hanja

怒 (no) (hangeul 노, revised no, McCune-Reischauer no, Yale no)

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Vietnamese

Han character

怒 (nộ)

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