忽

忽 U+5FFD, 忽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FFD ← 忼 [U+5FFC] CJK Unified Ideographs 忾 → [U+5FFE]

Translingual

Han character

忽 (radical 61, 心+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 心竹心 (PHP), four-corner 2733₂, composition ⿱勿心)

References

• KangXi: page 378, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10405
• Dae Jaweon: page 707, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2274, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5FFD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		忽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忽
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (勿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
脗	*minʔ
吻	*mɯnʔ
刎	*mɯnʔ
伆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯd
勽	*buːs, *mɯnʔ
沕	*mrɯd, *mɯd
忽	*hmɯːd
昒	*hmɯːd, *mɯd
惚	*hmɯːd
匫	*hmɯːd
笏	*hmɯːd
曶	*hmɯːd
淴	*ʔmɯːd
物	*mɯd
勿	*mɯd
芴	*mɯd
岉	*mɯd

Historically and academically considered a Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hmɯːd): phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd) + semantic 心 (“heart”). Colloquially explained as an Ideogrammic compound (會意): 勿 (“not”) + 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fut
• Min Bei (KCR): hŏ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hut

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hug⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fut
    • Hakka Romanization System: fud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fud⁵
    • IPA: /fut̚²/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hŏ
    • IPA ^(key): /xo²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
    • Tâi-lô: hut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hut̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hug⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: huk
    • IPA ^(key): /huk̚²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 忽
Mandarin	Beijing	/xu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/xu⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/xu²¹/
	Jinan	/xu²¹³/
	Qingdao	/xu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/xu²⁴/
	Xi'an	/xu²¹/
	Xining	/xv̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/xu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xu³¹/
	Ürümqi	/xu⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/xu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/fu³¹/
	Guiyang	/fu²¹/
	Kunming	/xu³¹/
	Nanjing	/xuʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/xuəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/xuʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/xuəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/hoʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/huəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/hoʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/ɕy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xuʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/xu⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/fu²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ɸu²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/fɨʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/fut̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/fɐt̚⁵/
	Nanning	/fɐt̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/fut̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hut̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/huɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xo²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/huk̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hut̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /huət̚/▼

Rime
Character	忽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼骨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/huot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwət̚/
Li Rong	/xuət̚/
Wang Li	/xuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	忽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hū
Middle Chinese	‹ xwot ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁut/
English	careless; confused
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	忽
Reading #	1/1
No.	13211
Phonetic component	勿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	忽
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːd/

Definitions

忽

1. suddenly, abruptly
2. to neglect
3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 一忽
• 一忽兒／一忽儿
• 倏來忽往／倏来忽往
• 倏忽 (shūhū)
• 公忽
• 奄忽
• 岸忽
• 忽上忽下
• 忽冷忽熱／忽冷忽热 (hūlěnghūrè)
• 忽剌八
• 忽剌巴
• 忽喜忽憂／忽喜忽忧
• 忽地
• 忽微
• 忽忽
• 忽忽不樂／忽忽不乐
• 忽明忽滅／忽明忽灭
• 忽東忽西／忽东忽西
• 忽然 (hūrán)
• 忽略 (hūlüè)
• 忽的
• 忽而 (hū'ér)
• 忽聚忽散

• 忽荒
• 忽見／忽见 (hūjiàn)
• 忽視／忽视 (hūshì)
• 忽起忽落
• 忽閃／忽闪 (hūshǎn)
• 忽隱忽現／忽隐忽现
• 忽雷 (hūléi)
• 忽高忽低
• 忽魯魯／忽鲁鲁
• 怠忽
• 怠忽職守／怠忽职守
• 恍忽
• 恍恍忽忽
• 恤近忽遠／恤近忽远
• 悠忽
• 悠悠忽忽
• 暴忽
• 杪忽
• 沒忽的／没忽的
• 玩忽
• 疏忽 (shūhu)
• 眇眇忽忽

• 瞻前忽後／瞻前忽后
• 禍生於忽／祸生于忽
• 秒忽
• 簡忽／简忽
• 粗忽
• 罕忽
• 翕忽
• 荒忽
• 行行忽忽
• 行蹤飄忽／行踪飘忽
• 超忽
• 軋忽／轧忽
• 輕忽／轻忽
• 迷忽忽
• 這忽兒／这忽儿
• 連朦帶忽／连朦带忽
• 陵忽
• 飄忽／飘忽 (piāohū)
• 飄忽不定／飘忽不定 (piāohūbùdìng)
• 驀忽／蓦忽
• 驀忽間／蓦忽间
• 黑忽忽

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Japanese

Kanji

忽

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. in a moment
2. instantly
3. all of a sudden
4. neglect
5. disregard

Readings

• On (unclassified): こつ (kotsu)
• Kun: ゆるがせ (yurugase, 忽せ); たちまち (tachimachi, 忽ち)

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Korean

Hanja

忽 • (hol) (hangeul 홀)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忽 (hốt)

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