湖

Translingual

Han character

湖 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水十口月 (EJRB), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵胡)

References

• KangXi: page 637, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17836
• Dae Jaweon: page 1044, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1669, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6E56

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		湖

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hú (hu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): ô͘
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: hu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu⁴
    • Yale: wùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /wuː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • POJ: fû
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ô͘
    • Tâi-lô: ô͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhu (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦɯ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (湖, reconstructed)
Character (湖), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 戸吳切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦuo/	/ɣuo/	/ɣo/	/ɦuo/	/ɦɔ/	/ɣu/	/ɣo/

Noun

湖

1. lake; loch

Proper noun

湖

1. short for Hubei, Hunan

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Japanese

Etymology

Compound of mizu (“water”) and umi (“ocean”)

Noun

湖 (hiragana みずうみ, romaji mizuumi, historical hiragana みづうみ)

1. a body of water surrounded by land; a lake

Kanji

湖

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぐ (gu) (non-Jōyō reading), ご (go) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: みずうみ (mizuumi)

Compounds

• 湖岸
• 湖沼
• 湖水
• 湖底

• 湖面
• 塩湖
• 汽水湖

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Korean

Hanja

湖 (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Compounds

• 湖水 (호수, hosu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

湖 (hồ)

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