臥

See also: 卧

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 臣 + 人

Han character

臥 (radical 131 臣+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸中人 (SLO), four-corner 7870₀, composition ⿰臣人)

1. lie down
2. crouch

Derived characters

• 臨, 監, 䭆

References

• KangXi: page 999, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30071
• Dae Jaweon: page 1450, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2801, character 3
• Unihan data for U+81E5

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Chinese

		-
trad.		臥
simp.		卧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wò (wo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngo⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ngō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wò
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɔ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngo⁶
    • Yale: ngoh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɔː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngō͘
    • Tâi-lô: ngō͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (臥, reconstructed)
Character (臥), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 戈 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 吾貨切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋuɑH/	/ŋuɑH/	/ŋuɑH/	/ŋuɑH/	/ŋwaH/	/ŋuɑH/	/ŋuɑH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (臥, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
臥								wò								‹ ngwaH ›								/*[ŋ]ˤ[o]j-s/								lie down, sleep
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
臥					13061					臥					歌					1					臥					/*ŋʷaːls/					原象人倚臣臨時休憩，或雲臣爲宿右下席形之訛

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

臥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: が (ga)
• Kun: ふす (fusu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

臥 (ngọa, ngoạ)

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