窩

See also 窝

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 咼

Han character

窩 (radical 116 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金月月口 (JCBBR), four-corner 3022₇)

1. nest
2. cave, den
3. hiding place

References

• KangXi: page 866, character 60
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25579
• Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2733, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7AA9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

窩 (simplified 窝, Yale wo1)

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Japanese

Kanji

窩

Readings

• On: か (ka), わ (wa)
• Kun: むろ (muro)

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Korean

Hanja

窩 (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

窩 (simplified 窝, pinyin dōu (dou1), dòu (dou4), wō (wo1), Wade-Giles tou¹, tou⁴, wo¹)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

窩 (POJ o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

窩 (oa)