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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Cantonese

Hanzi

霧 (simplified 雾, Yale mou6)

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Japanese

Noun

霧 (uncountable, hiragana きり, romaji kiri)

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

     重霧 下奇利

Kanji

霧 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: む (mu), ぶ (bu)
• Kun: きり (kiri)

References

• 1962 February 11, Takeuchi, Rizō, Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, ISBN 4-4903-0010-7:

Compounds

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

霧 (simplified 雾, pinyin wù (wu4), Wade-Giles wu⁴), meng2

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Middle Chinese

Han character

霧 (*miò, mǜ)

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Min Nan

Han character

霧 (bū, bu7)

Vietnamese

Han character

霧 (vụ, mù)