渦
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See also: 涡
Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 咼
Han character[edit]
渦 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月月口 (EBBR), four-corner 37127)
References[edit]
- KangXi: page 634, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17771
- Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1651, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6E26
Cantonese[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
渦 (simplified 涡, Jyutping gwo1, wo1, Yale gwo1, wo1)
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Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
渦
Readings[edit]
- Goon: か (ka), (historical) くわ (kwa), わ (wa) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: か (ka), (historical) くわ (kwa), わ (wa) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’yōon: か (ka), (historical) くわ (kwa)
- Kun: うず (uzu), (historical) うづ (udzu)
Etymology 1[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
| 渦 |
| か Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
/kwa/ → /ka/
From Middle Chinese 渦 (kwa?, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Affix[edit]
渦 (hiragana か, romaji ka, historical hiragana くわ)
Usage notes[edit]
This reading is only ever found in compounds.
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Etymology 2[edit]
| Kanji in this term |
| 渦 |
| うず Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
/udu/ → /udzu/ → /uzu/
From Old Japanese.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
渦 (hiragana うず, romaji uzu, historical hiragana うづ)
- eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex
- Early 700s, 播磨国風土記 (Harima no Kuni Fudoki, “Chronicles of the Country of Harima”)
- 絞水の淵あり。故、宇頭川と号く
- Uzu no fuchi ari. Kare, Uzugawa to nazuku.
- There is a deep whirl / eddy pool there. As such, it is called “Uzugawa” (Eddy River).
- 絞水の淵あり。故、宇頭川と号く
- Early 700s, 播磨国風土記 (Harima no Kuni Fudoki, “Chronicles of the Country of Harima”)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
渦 (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)
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Mandarin[edit]
Hanzi[edit]
渦 (simplified 涡, Pinyin guō (guo1), wō (wo1), Wade-Giles kuo1, wo1)
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- Han phono-semantic compounds
- Han script characters
- Cantonese lemmas
- Cantonese Han characters
- Japanese Han characters
- Common kanji
- Japanese kanji read as か
- Japanese kanji read as くわ
- Japanese kanji read as わ
- Japanese terms spelled with 渦 read as か
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese affixes
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 渦
- Japanese terms spelled with 渦 read as うず
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese
- Japanese nouns
- Korean lemmas
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- Mandarin lemmas
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