烏

See also 乌, and 鳥

Translingual

simpl.		乌
trad.		烏

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a bird. Compare 鳥 (“bird”), of similar development.

Sense “black, dark” generalized from crow – “black as a crow”. Compare 黑, from “black as ink”.

Han character

A black crow

烏 (radical 86 火+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹口卜火 (HRYF), four-corner 2732₇)

1. crow, rook, raven
2. black, dark

Synonyms

• 黑 (黒)

References

• KangXi: page 670, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18998
• Dae Jaweon: page 1079, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2202, character 3
• Unihan data for U+70CF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

烏 (simplified 乌, Yale wu1)

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Hmong

Hanzi

烏

1. crow

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Japanese

Kanji

烏

Readings

• On: う (u), お (o) , from を (wo), え (e)
• Kun: からす (karasu), いずくんぞ (izukunzo)

Noun

烏 (hiragana からす, katakana カラス, romaji karasu)

1. a crow; a raven

Alternative forms

• 鴉

Compounds

• 烏の行水 (karasu no gyozui): a quick bath
• 烏合の衆 (ugo no shu)
• 濡烏 (nuregarasu): the color jet-black
• 八咫烏 (yatagarasu): a flying creature in Japanese mythology

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Korean

Hanja

烏 (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune-Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

烏 (simplified 乌, pinyin wū (wu1), Wade-Giles wu¹)

Compounds

• 烏龜
• 烏龍 (wūlóng)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

烏 (POJ o͘, io)

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Vietnamese

Han character

烏 (ô, o)