吳

See also: 吴 and 呉

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 吳
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 口 ("mouth") + 夨

Han character

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

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

trad.		吳
simp.		吴
alt. forms		呉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wú, yú (wu², yu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ, ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): n̂g
• Min Nan (POJ): ngô͘ / gô͘
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhu (T3)

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: n̂g
    • Hakka Romanization System: ng´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ng¹
    • IPA: /ng²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘ / gô͘
    • Tâi-lô: ngôo / gôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ngoo, goo
    • IPA (Taipei): /ŋɔ²⁴/, /gɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋɔ¹³/, /gɔ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhu (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦv̩ʷ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋuo/▼

Rime
Character	吳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五乎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuo/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɔ/
Li Rong	/ŋo/
Wang Li	/ŋu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*ŋʷˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋʷaː/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	吳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wú
Middle Chinese	‹ ngu ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋʷˤa/
English	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	吳
Reading #	1/1
No.	13094
Phonetic component	吳
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	吾
Old Chinese	/*ŋʷaː/
Notes	金文象對人口出大聲，令其震驚而側首避讓，馮時說

Definitions

吳

1. (historical) one of the Warring States
2. the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
3. Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese

   ⇒ 吳語

4. A surname​.
5. a harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Descendants

• 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, McCune-Reischauer o, ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吳 (ngô, ngo)

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