湖

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湖 U+6E56, 湖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E56
← 湕
[U+6E55] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 湗 →
[U+6E57]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

Stroke order
12 strokes

湖 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水十口月 (EJRB), four-corner 37120, composition ⿰氵胡)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 637, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17836
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1044, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1669, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6E56

Chinese[edit]

trad. 湖
simp. # 湖
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Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 湖
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
箇 *kaːls
個 *kaːls
居 *kɯ, *kas
橭 *kaː, *kʰaː
嫴 *kaː
姑 *kaː
辜 *kaː
酤 *kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄 *kaː
鴣 *kaː
沽 *kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬 *kaː, *kaːʔ
古 *kaːʔ
罟 *kaːʔ
估 *kaːʔ
鈷 *kaːʔ
詁 *kaːʔ
牯 *kaːʔ
故 *kaːs
固 *kaːs
稒 *kaːɡs
痼 *kaːɡs
錮 *kaːɡs
鯝 *kaːɡs
棝 *kaːɡs
凅 *kaːɡs
枯 *kʰaː
軲 *kʰaː
跍 *kʰaː
骷 *kʰaː
苦 *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫 *qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬 *ɡaː
瑚 *ɡaː
湖 *ɡaː
鶘 *ɡaː
猢 *ɡaː
醐 *ɡaː
糊 *ɡaː
箶 *ɡaː
蝴 *ɡaː
胡 *ɡaː
瓳 *ɡaː
怙 *ɡaːʔ
祜 *ɡaːʔ
岵 *ɡaːʔ
婟 *ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛 *ɡaːʔ
据 *ka
裾 *ka
琚 *ka
椐 *ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋 *ka
蜛 *ka
崌 *ka
涺 *ka
腒 *ka, *ɡa
鋸 *kas
倨 *kas
踞 *kas
涸 *ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaː): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 胡 (OC *ɡaː).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • ô͘ - vernacular;
  • hô͘ - literary.
Note:
  • ou5 - vernacular;
  • hu5 - literary.
  • Wu
  • Xiang
    • Rime
    Character 湖
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
    Final (韻) 模 (23)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 戸吳切
    Baxter hu
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/ɦuo/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/ɦuo/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/ɣo/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/ɦɔ/
    Li
    Rong         		/ɣo/
    Wang
    Li         		/ɣu/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/ɣuo/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		hú
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		wu4
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 湖
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		hú
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ hu ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*[ɡ]ˁa/
    English lake

    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 湖
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 4247
    Phonetic
    component         		古
    Rime
    group         		魚
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		胡
    Old
    Chinese         		/*ɡaː/

    Definitions[edit]

    湖

    1. lake; loch
    2. Short for 湖北 (Húběi, “Hubei Province”).
    3. Short for 湖南 (Húnán, “Hunan Province”).

    Synonyms[edit]

    • (lake):
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    • 泊 (pō) (literary, or in compounds)
    • 海子 (hǎizi) (northern and southwestern Mandarin, chiefly in toponyms)

    Compounds[edit]

    Derived terms from 湖

    Descendants[edit]

    Sino-Xenic (湖):
    • → Japanese: 湖(こ) (ko)
    • → Korean: 호(湖) (ho)
    • → Vietnamese: hồ (湖)

    Others:

    Japanese[edit]

    Kanji[edit]

    湖

    (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

    1. lake

    Readings[edit]

    Compounds[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    Kanji in this term
    湖
    みずうみ
    Grade: 3
    kun’yomi
     湖 on Japanese Wikipedia

    水 (mizu, “water”) +‎ 海 (umi, “sea”)

    Pronunciation[edit]

    Noun[edit]

    湖(みずうみ) • (mizuumi) ←みづうみ (miduumi)?

    1. a lake (body of water)

    Korean[edit]

    Etymology[edit]

    From Middle Chinese 湖 (MC ɦuo). Recorded as Middle Korean 호 (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

    Hanja[edit]

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    湖 (eumhun 호수 호 (hosu ho))

    1. Hanja form? of 호 (“lake”).

    Compounds[edit]

    References[edit]

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

    Vietnamese[edit]

    Han character[edit]

    湖: Hán Nôm readings: hồ

    1. lake

    Usage notes[edit]

    • The modern Vietnamese word for lake is hồ.

    References[edit]

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