沃

Translingual

Han character

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

See also

• 添

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		沃
alternative forms		渥 (Min Nan)

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／形声, 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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ak / ok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wò
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wò
    • Wade–Giles: wo⁴
    • Yale: wò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
    • Palladius: во (vo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: juk¹
    • Yale: yūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General 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 (Hokkien)	/ɔk̚³²/ /ak̚³²/ 澆水
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/uɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ok̚²/ /ak̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ok̚⁵/ /ak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'owk

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
Baxter	'owk
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	uk1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 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 (Qūwò).
10. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 飫／饫 (yù).
11. a surname

Synonyms

• (to soak): 澆／浇 (jiāo), 淋 (lín)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沃 – see 澳 (“inlet of the sea where ships can anchor; bay; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 澳).

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

Further reading

• “Entry #3295”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

沃

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: おく (oku)
• Kan-on: よく (yoku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: 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

(deprecated template usage) 沃 (óc)

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