哈

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋɡuːb): semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) + phonetic 合 ‎(OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb).

Han character

哈 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口人一口 (ROMR), four-corner 6806₁, composition ⿰口合)

1. sound of laughter, yawning; often used for transliteration

References

• KangXi: page 189, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3594
• Dae Jaweon: page 408, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 619, character 5
• Unihan data for U+54C8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hā (ha¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haa¹, kaa¹, haai¹, haa⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): hâ
• Min Nan (POJ): ha

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hā
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: ha¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ha
    • IPA ^(key): /xa̠⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: haa¹, kaa¹, haai¹, haa⁵
    • Yale: hā, kā, hāai, háh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haa¹, kaa¹, haai¹, haa⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /hɑː⁵⁵/, /kʰɑː⁵⁵/, /hɑːi̯⁵⁵/, /hɑː¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: hâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ha´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ha¹
    • IPA: /ha²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha
    • Tâi-lô: ha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: haf
    • IPA (Taipei): /ha⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ha⁴⁴/

Definitions

哈

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of laughter
2. to breathe out
3. to bend; to stoop
4. Short for 哈薩克斯坦／哈萨克斯坦 (Hāsàkèsītǎn, “Kazakhstan”).
5. Short for 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn, “Harbin”).

Compounds

Compounds

哈勃 哈爾濱／哈尔滨 (Hā'ěrbīn, “place name”) 哈欠 (hāqiàn, “yawn”) 哈日族 (“Taiwanese Japanophile”) 哈囉／哈啰 (hāluó)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎ (ha³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄚˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ha³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haa
    • IPA ^(key): /xa̠²¹⁴/

Definitions

哈

1. Pekingese
2. pug
   • 哈巴狗 (“Chinese pug”)
3. (dialect) to scold

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

哈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: そう (sō)
• Kan’on: ごう (gō)
• Kan’yōon: は (ha)
• Kun: のむ (nomu), すする (susuru), くう (kuu)

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Korean

Hanja

哈 • ‎(hap) (hangeul 합, revised hap, McCune-Reischauer hap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哈 (cáp, hóp, hộp, ngáp, họp, hớp, ngớp)

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