惚

Translingual

Han character

惚 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心心竹心 (PPHP), four-corner 9703₂, composition ⿰忄忽)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 391, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10811
• Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2317, character 13
• Unihan data for U+60DA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		惚

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmɯːd) : semantic 忄 + phonetic 忽 (OC *hmɯːd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hut

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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/
• 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/

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• Middle Chinese: xwot

Rime
Character	惚
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	惚
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	惚
Reading #	1/1
No.	13213
Phonetic component	勿
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	忽
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːd/
Notes	見老子今本

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 惚

1. absent-minded; confused

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Japanese

Kanji

惚

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: こつ (kotsu)
• Kun: ほける (hokeru, 惚る)、ぼける (bokeru, 惚ける)、ほれる (horeru, 惚れる)

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Korean

Hanja

惚 • (hol) (hangeul 홀, revised hol, McCune–Reischauer hol, Yale hol)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 惚 (hốt, ghen)

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