吳

See also: 吴 and 呉

Translingual

shinjitai	呉
simplified	吴
traditional	吳

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 ("mouth") + variant of 大 ("big")

Original meaning was "to shout."

Han character

吳 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓大 (RVNK), four-corner 2680₁)

1. one of the Warring States
2. the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
3. the dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese
4. a Chinese surname
5. a harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

References

• KangXi: page 179, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5433

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

吳 (simplified 吴, Yale ng4)

---

Japanese

Kanji

吳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: ご (go)
• Kun: くれ (kure), くれる (kureru)

---

Korean

Hanja

吳 (hangeul 오, 호 (o, ho), revised o, ho, McCune-Reischauer o, ho)

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

吳 (simplified 吴, Pinyin wú (wu2), yú (yu2), Wade-Giles wu², yu²)

---

Middle Chinese

Han character

吳 (*ngo)

---

Min Nan

Hanzi

吳 (Gô·, Ngô·)

Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Go, Wu

---

Vietnamese

Han character

吳 (ngô, ngo)