呏

呏 U+544F, 呏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-544F ← 呎 [U+544E] CJK Unified Ideographs 呐 → [U+5450]

Translingual

Han character

呏 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹廿 (RHT), four-corner 6400₀, composition ⿰口升)

Derived characters

• 𡌍

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3424
• Dae Jaweon: page 399, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 590, character 1
• Unihan data for U+544F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		呏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shēng (sheng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sheng
    • Wade–Giles: shêng¹
    • Yale: shēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheng
    • Palladius: шэн (šɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sing¹
    • Yale: sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

呏

1. (obsolete) gallon

   Synonym: 加侖／加仑 (jiālún)

2. quart

References

• “呏”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

呏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Shō (しょう）: A traditional Japanese unit of liquid volume equal to 1.804 liters. For convenience, a shō is said to be equivalent to a half gallon. To be more precise, 1 gallon (3.785 liters) = 2.098 shō.

Readings

• On (unclassified): しょう (shō)
• Kun: ガロン (garon); クオート (kuōto)

Korean

Hanja

呏 • (seung) (hangeul 승, revised seung, McCune–Reischauer sŭng)

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