嘩

See also: 哗 and 譁

嘩 U+5629, 嘩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5629 ← 嘨 [U+5628] CJK Unified Ideographs 嘪 → [U+562A]

Translingual

Han character

嘩 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口廿一十 (RTMJ), four-corner 6405₄, composition ⿰口華)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 206, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4235
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 665, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5629

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鞾	*qʰʷa
華	*qʰʷraː, *ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs
譁	*qʰʷraː
樺	*ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs
嘩	*ɡʷraː
驊	*ɡʷraː
鏵	*ɡʷraː
崋	*ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷraː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 華 (OC *qʰʷraː, *ɡʷraː, *ɡʷraːs).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		嘩/譁
simp.		哗*
nonstandard simp.		𲂊

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huá (hua²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹, jip⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hoa / hôa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hua¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huá
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huá
    • Wade–Giles: hua²
    • Yale: hwá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwa
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa¹, jip⁶
    • Yale: wā, yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹, jip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa¹, yib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /jiːp̚²/

Note: jip6 - rare.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa
    • Tâi-lô: hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hua⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôa
    • Tâi-lô: huâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /hua²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hua¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hua
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hua³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xwae

Rime
Character	嘩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	呼瓜切
Baxter	xwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠua/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/xua/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwaɨ/
Li Rong	/xua/
Wang Li	/xwa/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faa1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷraː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	嘩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huá
Middle Chinese	‹ xwae ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰˁra/
English	shout
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	嘩
Reading #	1/1
No.	5311
Phonetic component	華
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	華
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷraː/
Notes	譁或體

Definitions

嘩

1. to make noise; to be noisy; to be uproarious

Compounds

• 喧嘩 (xuānhuá)
• 嘩世取寵／哗世取宠
• 嘩噪／哗噪
• 嘩囂／哗嚣
• 嘩然／哗然 (huárán)
• 嘩眾取寵／哗众取宠 (huázhòngqǔchǒng)
• 嘩笑／哗笑
• 嘩變／哗变 (huábiàn)
• 嘩釦／哗扣
• 語笑喧嘩／语笑喧哗

 

Pronunciation 2

trad.		嘩
simp.		哗*

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huā (hua¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹, waa⁴, faa¹, jip⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khôa / hôa / hoa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hua¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huā
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hua
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹
    • Yale: hwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hua
    • Palladius: хуа (xua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa¹, waa⁴, faa¹, jip⁶
    • Yale: wā, wàh, fā, yihp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹, waa⁴, faa¹, jip⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa¹, wa⁴, fa¹, yib⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /waː²¹/, /faː⁵⁵/, /jiːp̚²/

Note: faa1, jip6 - rare.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khôa
    • Tâi-lô: khuâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰua²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hôa
    • Tâi-lô: huâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hua²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa
    • Tâi-lô: hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua³³/

Note:

• Xiamen:
  • khôa - vernacular;
  • hôa - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hua¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hua
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hua³³/

Definitions

嘩

1. (onomatopoeia) sound of flowing or gurgling water
2. (onomatopoeia) thump; clang; sound of crashing

Compounds

• 嘩啦／哗啦
• 嘩啦啦／哗啦啦 (huālālā)
• 嘩喇喇／哗喇喇
• 白嘩嘩／白哗哗
• 稀里嘩啦 (xīlǐhuālā)

 

Pronunciation 3

trad.		嘩
simp.		哗*

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hōa / hǒa / hoa

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hōa
    • Tâi-lô: huā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoa
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hua³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒa
    • Tâi-lô: huǎ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hua²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa
    • Tâi-lô: hua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoaf
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hua⁴⁴/

Definitions

嘩

1. (Southern Min) to joke around; to laugh and play
2. (Southern Min) to make noise; to bustle

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 開玩笑 (“to kid; to joke around”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		開玩笑
Mandarin	Beijing	開玩笑, 打哈哈
	Taiwan	開玩笑
	Tianjin	開哏
	Jinan	開玩笑, 打哈哈
	Xi'an	開玩笑
	Wuhan	科心, 科德行, 鬥散放
	Chengdu	涮罈子
	Liuzhou	講笑
	Yangzhou	開心
	Nanjing	尋開心
	Hefei	開心, 開玩笑
	Singapore	開玩笑
Cantonese	Guangzhou	講笑
	Hong Kong	講笑
	Dongguan	講笑
	Yangjiang	攪笑
	Singapore (Guangfu)	講笑
Gan	Nanchang	開玩笑
Hakka	Meixian	講笑
Huizhou	Jixi	講笑, 開玩笑
Jin	Taiyuan	耍笑, 開玩笑
Northern Min	Jian'ou	𡛴, 𡛴嬉
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	講笑, 蠻笑, 做暢
Southern Min	Xiamen	滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	咧
	Quanzhou	滾笑, 講笑, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Zhangzhou	滾笑, 講笑, 𠢕滾, 戲謔, 嘩, 摽, 摽笑
	Zhangzhou (Changtai)	講摽笑
	Taipei (Wanhua)	滾笑
	Kaohsiung	耍笑
	Yilan	講笑詼
	Changhua (Lukang)	講笑
	Taichung	講笑
	Taichung (Wuqi)	講耍笑
	Tainan	滾笑, 滾耍笑, 講耍笑
	Taitung	講耍笑
	Hsinchu	講笑
	Penghu (Magong)	滾笑
	Penang (Hokkien)	𠢕滾, 講笑
	Singapore (Hokkien)	滾笑, 講笑, 講耍笑, 耍笑
	Manila (Hokkien)	摽, 摽笑, 滾笑, 講笑
	Chaozhou	呾耍笑
	Shantou	呾耍
	Shantou (Chenghai)	呾耍
	Singapore (Teochew)	呾耍笑, 呾耍, 呾笑
	Haikou	講笑
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	講笑
Wu	Shanghai	尋開心, 開玩笑, 打棚, 摟白相, 話白相, 講白相
	Shanghai (Chongming)	尋開心
	Suzhou	尋開心, 打棚, 摟白相, 捉弄, 弄白相, 講白相, 講張
	Hangzhou	尋開心
	Ningbo	尋開心
	Wenzhou	講笑, 講取笑
Xiang	Changsha	鬥霸, 鬥放子, 講笑
	Shuangfeng	鬥散放, 打豪

Compounds

• 反嘩／反哗
• 喊嘩／喊哗
• 嘩嘩叫／哗哗叫
• 嘩嘩吼／哗哗吼
• 嘻嘻嘩嘩 (hi-hi-hōa-hōa) (Min Nan)
• 嘩嘩嚷／哗哗嚷
• 嘩嘩滾／哗哗滚
• 嘩滾／哗滚
• 嘩酒／哗酒
• 摽嘩／摽哗
• 摽滾嘩／摽滚哗
• 滾嘩／滚哗
• 講嘩／讲哗

 

Pronunciation 4

trad.		嘩
simp.		哗*
alternative forms		哇

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa³
    • Yale: wa
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː³³/

Definitions

嘩

1. (Cantonese) wow!; whoa! (used to express surprise or admiration)

   嘩，咁多人嘅？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   哗，咁多人嘅？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   waa³, gam³ do¹ jan⁴ ge²? [Jyutping]

   Whoa, why are there so many people?

   嘩，好靚呀！ [Cantonese, trad.]
   哗，好靓呀！ [Cantonese, simp.]

   waa³, hou² leng³ aa³! [Jyutping]

   Wow, it's so pretty!

References

• “嘩”, 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

嘩

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. noisy

Readings

• Go-on: げ (ge)^{←げ (ge, historical)←ぐゑ (gwe, ancient)}
• Kan-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: かまびすしい (kamabisushii, 嘩しい)

Compounds

• 嘩(か)笑(しょう) (kashō)
• 嘩(か)然(ぜん) (kazen)
• 讙(かん)嘩(か) (kanka)
• 喧(けん)嘩(か) (kenka) (諠(けん)譁(か))
• 讙(けん)嘩(か) (kenka)
• 囂(ごう)嘩(か) (gōka)
• 紛(ふん)嘩(か) (funka)

 

Korean

Hanja

嘩 • (hwa) (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune–Reischauer hwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嘩: Hán Nôm readings: hoa

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References

• Nom Foundation