嗚

See also: 鳴 and 呜

嗚 U+55DA, 嗚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DA ← 嗙 [U+55D9] CJK Unified Ideographs 嗛 → [U+55DB]

Translingual

Han character

嗚 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口火 (RHRF), four-corner 6702₇, composition ⿰口烏)

Derived characters

• 𤀙, 𫉩, 𭌨

Related characters

• 呜 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4084
• Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 668, character 15
• Unihan data for U+55DA

Chinese

trad.		嗚
simp.		呜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
烏	*qaː
嗚	*qaː
鰞	*qaː
歍	*qaː
鎢	*qaː
瑦	*qaː, *qaːʔ
鄔	*qaː, *qaːʔ, *qas
螐	*qaː
隖	*qaːʔ
塢	*qaːʔ, *qaːs
溩	*qaːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 烏 (OC *qaː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wū (wu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): ŭ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): o͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): u¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹u

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wū
    • Zhuyin: ㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wu
    • Wade–Giles: wu¹
    • Yale: wū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: u
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wu¹
    • Yale: wū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
    • Tâi-lô: oo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: of
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: u¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹u
    • MiniDict: u^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹u
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /u⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'u

Rime
Character	嗚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	哀都切
Baxter	'u
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɔ/
Li Rong	/ʔo/
Wang Li	/u/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嗚
Reading #	1/1
No.	13078
Phonetic component	烏
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	烏
Old Chinese	/*qaː/

Definitions

嗚

1. (onomatopoeia) Sound of sobbing or crying.

Compounds

• 一命嗚呼／一命呜呼 (yīmìngwūhū)
• 喑嗚／喑呜
• 喑嗚叱吒／喑呜叱吒
• 嗚呼／呜呼 (wūhū)
• 嗚咂／呜咂
• 嗚呼哀哉／呜呼哀哉 (wūhū'āizāi)
• 嗚咽／呜咽 (wūyè)
• 嗚唈／呜唈
• 嗚啞／呜哑
• 嗚嗚／呜呜 (wūwū)
• 嗚嗚咽咽／呜呜咽咽
• 嗚噎／呜噎
• 嗚軋／呜轧
• 噫嗚／噫呜

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00656
• “嗚”, 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

嗚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (expression) oh, ah, alas
2. to weep

Readings

• Go-on: う (u)
• Kan-on: お (o)^{←を (wo, historical)}
• Kun: あ (a, 嗚)

Compounds

• 嗚咽(おえつ) (oetsu)
• 嗚呼(ああ) (ā)

Korean

Hanja

嗚 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗚: Hán Nôm readings: ô, o, ọ, ỏ, u, ú

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References

• Nom Foundation