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

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§Chinese

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trad.		吳
simp.		吴

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wú, yú (wu², yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ, ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): ngô͘ / gô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wú
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: wu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    • IPA ^(key): /u³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yú
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: yü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    • IPA ^(key): /y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ng⁴
    • Yale: ǹgh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘ / gô͘
    • Tâi-lô: ngô͘ / gô͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ²³/, /gɔ²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ¹³/, /gɔ¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (吳, reconstructed)
Character (吳), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 五乎切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋuo/	/ŋuo/	/ŋo/	/ŋuo/	/ŋɔ/	/ŋu/	/ŋo/

Old Chinese pronunciation (吳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
吳								wú								‹ ngu ›								/*ŋʷˤa/								shout; name of a state
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
吳					13094					吳					魚					0					吾					/*ŋʷaː/					金文象對人口出大聲，令其震驚而側首避讓，馮時說

§Definitions

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§Descendants

• (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Go, Wu

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§Japanese

§Kanji

吳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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§Readings

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

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§Korean

§Hanja

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

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

吳 (ngô, ngo)

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