霧

See also: 雾

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 務

Han character

霧 (radical 173 雨+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一月弓竹尸 (MBNHS), four-corner 1022₇, composition ⿱雨務)

1. fog, mist, vapor, fine spray

See also

• 露

References

• KangXi: page 1377, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42418
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4074, character 15
• Unihan data for U+9727

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Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): bô͘ / bū

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô͘ / bū
    • Tâi-lô: bô͘ / bū
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ²³/, /bu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ¹³/, /bu²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (霧, reconstructed)
Character (霧), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 亡遇切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨoH/	/mi̯uH/	/mioH/	/mioH/	/muə̆H/	/mĭuH/	/mioH/

Noun

霧

1. fog, mist, vapor, fine spray

Compounds

• 霧沉沉, 霧沉沉的
• 霧化
• 霧里看花
• 霧茫茫, 霧茫茫的
• 霧氣
• 霧騰騰, 霧騰騰的

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Japanese

Noun

霧 (hiragana きり, romaji kiri)

1. mist, fog
   • 794, Shin'yaku Kegonkyō Ongi Shiki

     重霧 下奇利

See also

• 霞み (かすみ, kasumi)

Kanji

霧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: む (mu), ぶ (bu)
• Kun: きり (kiri)

Compounds

• 煙霧 (えんむ) (enmu): a mist, fog, smog; a haze
• 煙霧質 (えんむしつ) (enmushitsu): an aerosol

References

• 1962 May 2, Rizō Takeuchi, Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 4-4903-0010-7:

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Korean

Hanja

霧 (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

霧 (*miò, mǜ)

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Min Nan

Han character

霧 (bū, bu7)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霧 (vụ, mù, vũ, võ)

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