祜

Translingual

Han character

祜 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火十口 (IFJR), four-corner 3426₀, composition ⿰礻古)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2390, character 24
• Unihan data for U+795C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／形声, OC *ɡaːʔ) : semantic 礻 (“divine”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hù (hu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶ / wu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō͘ / hǒ͘

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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 / wu²
    • Yale: wuh / wú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶ / wu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶ / wu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/, /wuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō͘
    • Tâi-lô: hōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ho
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒ͘
    • Tâi-lô: hǒo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: huX

Rime
Character	祜
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): /*[ɡ]ˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ huX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaʔ/
English	blessing
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	祜
Reading #	1/1
No.	4258
Phonetic component	古
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	戸
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 祜

1. favor from heaven; blessing

Synonyms

• 福 (fú), 祝福 (zhùfú), 祚 (zuò)

References

• “祜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

祜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. blessing
2. happiness
3. prosperity

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祜い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, 祜ひ, historical)}
• Nanori: さち (sachi)

Usage notes

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ko₁⟩ in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).

Compounds

• 多祜(たこ)の浦(うら) (Tako-no-ura)

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Korean

Hanja

祜 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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