窩

See also: 窝

Translingual

Han character

窩 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金月月口 (JCBBR), four-corner 3022₇, composition ⿱穴咼)

Derived characters

• 𡁮, 𭒨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 866, character 60
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25579
• Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2733, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7AA9

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Chinese

trad.		窩
simp.		窝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qloːl) : semantic 穴 (“cave”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): вә (və, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vô
• Northern Min (KCR): uá
• Eastern Min (BUC): uŏ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): o / o͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): o¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹u

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wō
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wo
    • Wade–Giles: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
    • Palladius: во (vo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: вә (və, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /və²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wo¹
    • Yale: wō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vô
    • Hakka Romanization System: vo´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vo¹
    • Sinological IPA: /vo²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: uá
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ua⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uŏ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uo⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o
    • Tâi-lô: o
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oy
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /o³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɤ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /o⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
    • Tâi-lô: oo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: of
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: o¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: o
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /o³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹u
    • MiniDict: u^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹u
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /u⁵³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 窩
Mandarin	Beijing	/uo⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/uo⁴⁴/ /uo⁵³/ 地名
	Tianjin	/uo²¹/
	Jinan	/və²¹³/
	Qingdao	/və²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/uo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/uo²¹/
	Xining	/u⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/və⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/və³¹/
	Ürümqi	/vɤ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/uo⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/o⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/o⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/o⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/o³¹/
	Hefei	/ʊ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vɤ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/uei¹³/
	Hohhot	/vɤ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/u⁵³/
	Suzhou	/əu⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔo³³/
	Wenzhou	/v̠u³³/
Hui	Shexian	/o³¹/
	Tunxi	/o¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/o³³/
	Xiangtan	/o³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/uo⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/vo⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wɔ⁵³/
	Nanning	/wɔ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/wɔ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/o⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/uo⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ua⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/o³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/o²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窩
Reading #	1/1
No.	4378
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	倭
Old Chinese	/*qloːl/
Notes	𡑟後起字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 窩

1. nest
2. cave, den
3. hiding place
4. (Mainland China, Internet slang) I, me

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Japanese

Kanji

窩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. cave
2. pouch

Readings

• Go-on: わ (wa)
• Kan-on: わ (wa)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
• Kun: むろ (muro, 窩)

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Korean

Hanja

窩 • (wa) (hangeul 와)

1. a dugout hut
2. nest
3. cave

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 窩 (oa)

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