哼

Translingual

Han character

哼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口卜口弓 (RYRN), four-corner 6002₇, composition ⿰口亨)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3679
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 632, character 14
• Unihan data for U+54FC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		哼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
亨	*qʰaŋʔ, *pqʰraːŋ, *qʰraːŋ
享	*qʰaŋʔ
烹	*pqʰraːŋ
脝	*qʰraːŋ
悙	*qʰraːŋ
哼	*qʰraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰraːŋ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 亨 (OC *qʰaŋʔ, *pqʰraːŋ, *qʰraːŋ)

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hēng (heng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hang¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: heng
    • Wade–Giles: hêng¹
    • Yale: hēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heng
    • Palladius: хэн (xɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hang¹
    • Yale: hāng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hang¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: heng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐŋ⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰraːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哼
Reading #	1/1
No.	5118
Phonetic component	亨
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	脝
Old Chinese	/*qʰraːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 哼

1. to hum; to croon

   嗱，你啲歌呢，隻隻我都識哼几句呀。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   嗱，你啲歌呢，只只我都识哼几句呀。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   From: [1]

   naa⁴, nei⁵ di¹ go¹ ne¹, zek³ zek³ ngo⁵ dou¹ sik¹ hang¹ gei² geoi³ aa³. [Jyutping]

   I know how to hum a bit of every single one of your songs.

2. to moan

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hng (hng⁵／hng⁰)

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄏㄫ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hng
    • Zhuyin: ˙ㄏㄫ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hn̊g
    • Wade–Giles: hng⁵
    • Yale: hng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hng5
    • Palladius: хн (xn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xŋ̍/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hng⁶
    • Yale: hngh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: hng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hŋ̍²²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 哼

1. hmph

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

哼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: おびえる (obieru)

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Korean

Hanja

哼 • (hyeong) (hangeul 형)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 哼 (hanh)

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