忽

Translingual

Han character

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

1. suddenly, abruptly
2. to neglect
3. the number 10^-5
4. a surname

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

See also

• Chinese Numeral 忽
  • Next: 微
  • Last: 絲

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		忽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忽
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fut
• Min Nan (POJ): hut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: hu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fut
    • Hakka Romanization System: fud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fud⁵
    • IPA: /fut̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hut
    • Tâi-lô: hut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hud
    • IPA (Taipei): /hut̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hut̚³²/

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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	/*m̥ˤut/
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

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Japanese

Kanji

忽

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: こつ (kotsu)
• Kun: ゆるがせに (yurugaseni), たちまち (tachimachi)

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Korean

Hanja

忽 • ‎(hol) (hangeul 홀, revised hol, McCune-Reischauer hol, Yale hol)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: hốt

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