號

See also: 号

Translingual

Japanese	号
Simplified	号
Traditional	號

Han character

號 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口尸卜心弓 (RSYPN) or 口尸卜心山 (RSYPU), four-corner 6121₁, composition ⿰号虎)

Derived characters

• 饕, 㙱, 𣜍, 𧰑, 𡀱, 𣜵, 𤩭, 𪷢

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1074, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32726
• Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2824, character 4
• Unihan data for U+865F

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Chinese

trad.		號
simp.		号

variant form of 號

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 號
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
饕	*l̥ʰaːw
號	*ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws
号	*ɦlaːws
枵	*hraw
呺	*hraw
鴞	*ɦraw

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws) : phonetic 号 (OC *ɦlaːws) + semantic 虎.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)aw (“to call”).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 號

1. name; alias
2. (specifically) art name
3. to order; to command
4. shop; store
5. mark; symbol
6. number

   第五號／第五号  ―  dìwǔ hào  ―  No. 5 (in a sequence); V

7. (informal) day of the month

   7月25號／7月25号 [Cantonese]  ―  7 jyut⁶ 25 hou⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  July 25

8. (music) brass wind instrument
9. (Central Plains Mandarin, Lanyin Mandarin, Sichuanese) to correct; to mark (school work)

Synonyms

• (day of the month): 日 (rì)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): háo (hao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hô / hô͘ / âu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hao¹ / ho⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: háo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: háo
    • Wade–Giles: hao²
    • Yale: háu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haur
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hou⁴
    • Yale: hòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô
    • Tâi-lô: hô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hooi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ho¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /ho²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɤ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô͘
    • Tâi-lô: hôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âu
    • Tâi-lô: âu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: aau
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /au²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /au¹³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hao¹ / ho⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hau / hō
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hau³³/, /ho¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: haw

Rime
Character	號
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡刀切
Baxter	haw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦaw/
Li Rong	/ɣɑu/
Wang Li	/ɣɑu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	háo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hou4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.ɡ]ˤaw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦlaːw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	號
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	háo
Middle Chinese	‹ haw ›
Old Chinese	/*[C.ɡ]ˁaw/
English	call out
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	號
Reading #	1/2
No.	4916
Phonetic component	号
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	豪
Old Chinese	/*ɦlaːw/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 號

1. to shout; to bawl; to cry loudly
2. (of animal) to roar
3. to cry (to shed a tear) (loudly)
4. (of wind) to howl; to roar

Further reading

• “Entry #10008”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	号
Kyūjitai	號

Kanji

號

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 号)

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu, 號ぶ); よびな (yobina, 號)

Suffix

1. ordinal marker

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 號 (hào, hiệu)

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