號

See also 号

Translingual

Etymology

号 is the Simplified Character, but just as old as 號. Not a later simplification.

Han character

號 (radical 141 虍+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口尸卜心弓 (RSYPN), 口尸卜心山 (RSYPU), four-corner 6121₁, composition ⿰号虎)

1. mark, sign
2. symbol
3. number

References

• KangXi: page 1074, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32726
• Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2824, character 4
• Unihan data for U+865F

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Cantonese

Hanzi

號 (simplified 号, Yale hou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

號

Readings

• On: ごう (gō), こう (kō)
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu), よびな (yobina)

Suffix

號 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai 号, hiragana ごう, romaji -gō)

1. ordinal marker

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

號 (simplified 号, pinyin hào (hao4), Wade-Giles hao⁴)

Noun

號 (traditional, Pinyin hào, simplified 号)

1. (literary) brass wind instrument

   小號 (trumpet)

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Vietnamese

Han character

號 (hào, hiệu)