沃

沃 U+6C83, 沃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C83 ← 沂 [U+6C82] CJK Unified Ideographs 沄 → [U+6C84]

Translingual

Han character

沃 (radical 85 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水竹大 (EHK), four-corner 3213₄, composition ⿰氵夭)

1. water, irrigate
2. fertile, rich

See also

• 添

References

• KangXi: page 609, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17184
• Dae Jaweon: page 1002, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1566, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6C83

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		沃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夭) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
笑	sqʰows
夭	qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
镺	qoːwʔ, *qoːws
芺	qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
妖	qrow
祅	qrow
枖	qrow
訞	qrow
殀	qrowʔ
仸	qrowʔ
妋	pa, *qu
飫	qos
沃	qoːwɢ
鋈	qoːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːwɢ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 夭 (OC *qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ) – to irrigate with water.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wò (wo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ak / ok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wò
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: juk¹
    • Yale: yūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ak
    • Tâi-lô: ak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ak̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ak̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ok
    • Tâi-lô: ok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: og
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔk̚⁵/

Note:

• ak - vernacular;
• ok - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 沃
Mandarin	Beijing	/uo⁵¹/
	Harbin	/uo⁵³/
	Tianjin	/uo⁵³/
	Jinan	/və²¹³/
	Qingdao	/və⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/uo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/u²¹/
	Xining	/v̩⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/və¹³/
	Lanzhou	/vu¹³/
	Ürümqi	/vɤ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/uo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/o³¹/
	Guiyang	/o²¹/
	Kunming	/o³¹/
	Nanjing	/uʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/uɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/vʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/vaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/oʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/oʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔoʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/o²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/uʔ²¹/ /uaʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ŋo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/o²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/fok̚¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jok̚⁵/
	Nanning	/juk̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/jok̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ɔk̚³²/ /ak̚³²/ 澆水
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/uɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/ok̚²/ /ak̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ok̚⁵/ /ak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔuok̚/▼

Rime
Character	沃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	沃 (6)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	烏酷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔawk̚/
Li Rong	/ʔok̚/
Wang Li	/uok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qoːwɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沃
Reading #	1/1
No.	14637
Phonetic component	夭
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	沃
Old Chinese	/*qoːwɢ/

Definitions

沃

1. to water
2. to soak
3. fertile
4. lush
5. tame
6. low
7. white
8. a river in Shanxi
9. Short for 曲沃.
10. Alternative form of 飫 (yù).
11. A surname​.

Compounds

• 以湯沃沸／以汤沃沸
• 以湯沃雪／以汤沃雪
• 以飴沃釜／以饴沃釜
• 啟沃／启沃
• 如湯沃雪／如汤沃雪
• 沃土 (wòtǔ)

• 沃果兒／沃果儿
• 沃沃
• 沃腴
• 沃衍
• 沃野
• 沃野千里

• 沃饒／沃饶
• 肥沃 (féiwò)
• 肥沃月灣／肥沃月湾
• 衍沃
• 表沃夫
• 饒沃／饶沃

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沃 – see 澳. (This character, 沃, is the second-round simplified form of 澳.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

沃

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: おく (oku)
• Kan’on: よく (yoku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yōon: よう (yō)
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu, 沃ぐ); こえる (koeru)

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Korean

Hanja

沃 • (ok) (hangeul 옥, revised ok, McCune-Reischauer ok, Yale ok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

沃 (óc)

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