忽

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 378, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10405
• Dae Jaweon: page 707, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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／形声, OC *hmɯːd) : phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd) + semantic 心 (“heart”). Colloquially explained as an Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 勿 (“not”) + 心 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fut
• Northern Min (KCR): hŏ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hut

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hug⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hu
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Yale: hū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fut
    • Hakka Romanization System: fud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fud⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /fut̚²/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hŏ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xo²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (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
    • Sinological 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 (Hokkien)	/hut̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/huɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xo²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/huk̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hut̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xwot

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
Baxter	xwot
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fat1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 忽

1. suddenly, abruptly
2. to neglect
3. a surname

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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

(deprecated template usage) 忽 (hốt)

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