戶

See also: 户, 戸, and 尸

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	戶
Shinjitai	戸
Simplified	户

Alternative forms

Note the regionally different forms of this character which are encoded separately in Unicode:

• 戶 (top stroke connects to left stroke) - used in Taiwan and South Korea.
• 戸 (top stroke is a horizontal line that does not connect to other strokes, as found in the historical Kangxi dictionary) - used in Japan.
• 户 (top stroke is a slanting dot) - used in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Note also the different stroke order: 户 and 戸 have the leftmost 丿 as the final (fourth) stroke, while 戶 (this character) has 丿 as the second stroke.

Han character

戶 (Kangxi radical 63, 戶+0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸 (HS), four-corner 3027₇, composition ⿸𠂆コ)

1. Kangxi radical #63, ⼾.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №437

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/戶

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 414, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11696
• Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2257, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6236

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Chinese

trad.		戶
simp.		户
alternative forms		户 戸

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戶
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
妒	*tqaːs
雇	*kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
顧	*kʷaːs
戽	*qʰʷaːʔ, *qʰʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
戶	*ɡʷaːʔ
扈	*ɡʷaːʔ
帍	*ɡʷaːʔ
昈	*ɡʷaːʔ
滬	*ɡʷaːʔ
簄	*ɡʷaːʔ
齭	*skʰraʔ, *sqʰraʔ
所	*sqʰraʔ

Pictogram (象形) : half of 門 (“door”).

Etymology

Cognate with Tibetan སྒོ (sgo, “door”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hù (hu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fu
• Eastern Min (BUC): hô
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hō͘ / hǒ͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hou⁶

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶wu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hù
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hù
    • Wade–Giles: hu⁴
    • Yale: hù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huh
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wu⁶
    • Yale: wuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō͘
    • Tâi-lô: hōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ho
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒ͘
    • Tâi-lô: hǒo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hou⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŏu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶wu
    • MiniDict: wu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦu²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 戶
Mandarin	Beijing	/xu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/xu⁵³/
	Tianjin	/xu⁵³/
	Jinan	/xu²¹/
	Qingdao	/xu⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xu³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/xv̩²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/xu¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xu¹³/
	Ürümqi	/xu²¹³/
	Wuhan	/xu³⁵/
	Chengdu	/fu¹³/ /xu¹³/
	Guiyang	/fu²¹³/
	Kunming	/xu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/xu⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/xu⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/xu³⁵/
	Hohhot	/xu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/vu²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦəu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/vu³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/xu²²/
	Tunxi	/xu²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/fu⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸu⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/fu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/fu⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wu²²/
	Nanning	/wu²²/
	Hong Kong	/wu²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/hɔ²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/hou²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/xu⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/hou³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/hu³³/ /hɔu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: huX

Rime
Character	戶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	侯古切
Baxter	huX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣoX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɔX/
Li Rong	/ɣoX/
Wang Li	/ɣuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-qˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戶	戶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hù	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ huX ›	‹ huX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-qˁaʔ/	/*m-qˁaʔ/
English	to stop, to check	door
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	戶
Reading #	1/1
No.	5296
Phonetic component	戸
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戸
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷaːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 戶

1. door
2. family; household
3. Classifier for households.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

戶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. door

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu); ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: と (to, 戶); へ (he, 戶)
• Nanori: え (e); へ (he)

Usage notes

This character lacks JIS support; 戸 (U+6238) is used instead.

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Korean

Hanja

戶 (eumhun 지게문 호 (jigemun ho))

1. house
2. hole

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 戶 (hộ)

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