霍

霍 U+970D, 霍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-970D ← 霌 [U+970C] CJK Unified Ideographs 霎 → [U+970E]

Translingual

Han character

霍 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月人土 (MBOG), four-corner 1021₄, composition ⿱⻗隹)

Derived characters

• 嚯, 攉, 瀖, 㺢, 曤, 㰌, 㸌, 臛, 皬, 矐, 礭, 㱋, 鸖, 藿, 籗, 癨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1375, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42321
• Dae Jaweon: page 1884, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4068, character 1
• Unihan data for U+970D

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Chinese

trad.		霍
simp. #		霍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
靃	*sqʰʷalʔ, *qʰʷaːɡ
臛	*qʰʷoːɡ
籗	*kʰʷaːɡ
霍	*qʰʷaːɡ
藿	*qʰʷaːɡ
攉	*qʰʷaːɡ
矐	*qʰʷaːɡ, *qʰaːɡ
瀖	*qʰʷaːɡ
癨	*qʰʷaːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 雨 (“rain”) + 隹 (“bird”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 霍

1. quickly, suddenly
2. (Wuhan Mandarin) lightning
3. a surname

   霍去病  ―  Huò Qùbìng  ―  Huo Qubing (Chinese military general in the Western Han dynasty)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 閃電 (“lightning”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		電, 霍閃
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		閃電
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	閃
	Taiwan	閃電
	Harbin	閃
	Singapore	閃電
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	閃
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	閃
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	閃, 忽閃
	Wanrong	霍閃
	Wanrong (Ronghe)	閃電
	Xi'an	閃電
	Xining	閃電
	Xuzhou	閃
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	火閃
	Lanzhou	閃
	Ürümqi	閃電
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	火閃, 閃, 閃電
	Wuhan	霍
	Guiyang	火閃, 閃
	Liuzhou	閃
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	閃, 閃電
	Yangzhou	閃
	Nantong	霍閃, 霍響
	Hefei	閃
Cantonese	Guangzhou	閃電
	Hong Kong	閃電
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	天攝
	Zhongshan (Chongkoumen, Nanlang; Tanka)	天攝
	Zhuhai (Shangheng, Doumen; Tanka)	天霎
	Zhuhai (Doumen)	閃電
	Taishan	天霎, 閃電
	Dongguan	閃電
	Yangjiang	天霎
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	閃電
Gan	Nanchang	霍閃
	Pengze	掣霍
	Lichuan	劃閃焰
Hakka	Meixian	火蛇, 火蛇仔
	Dabu (Xihe)	𥍉爧
	Dabu (Taoyuan)	𥍉爧
	Dabu (Gaobei)	𥍉爧
	Fengshun (Tangkeng)	𥍉爧
	Fengshun (Fengliang)	火蛇
	Fengshun (Pantian)	𥍉爧
	Huidong (Daling)	火蛇
	Zijin	火蛇
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	火蛇子
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	𥍉電
	Changting	𥍉電
	Wuping	雷公刀子
	Wuping (Pingyu)	火蛇子, 雷公刀子
	Liancheng	雷焰刀
	Liancheng (Peitian)	雷影, 雷火
	Ninghua	焰火索
	Yudu	閃
	Ruijin	閃光
	Shicheng	打焰
	Shangyou (Shexi)	火閃
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	𥍉爧
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	𥍉爧
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	𥍉爧
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	𥍉爧
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	𥍉爧
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	𥍉爧
	Hong Kong	火蛇𥍉
	Lipu (Shuangduitun)	火蛇
	Lipu (Dashigu)	閃電
	Guidong	雷火閃
	Sabah (Huiyang)	火蛇𥍉
	Kuala Lumpur (Huiyang)	火蛇𥍉
	Kuala Lumpur (Dabu)	𥍉電
	Senai (Huiyang)	火蛇𥍉
Huizhou	Jixi	月扇
	Shexian	日閃, 熱扇
	Huangshan (Tunxi)	閃電
	Xiuning	打閃閃
	Yixian	閃展
	Wuyuan	火線
	Chun'an (Qiandaohu)	霍閃
	Chun'an (Jiangjia)	霍閃
	Jiande (Meicheng)	霍閃
	Jiande (Shouchang)	霍閃
Jin	Taiyuan	閃
	Xinzhou	閃
Jiuxing Yumin	Jiande	霍線
	Jinhua	霍閃
	Lanxi	霍閃
	Tunxi	火線
Northern Min	Jian'ou	焰刀
	Pucheng (Shibei)	火焰刀
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	亮線
	Fuzhou (Changle)	亮線
	Fuqing	㸎㸎
	Yongtai	亮線
	Gutian	亮線
	Fu'an	雷爍
	Ningde	雷爍
	Shouning	雷爍
	Zhouning	雷爍
	Fuding	雷爍
Southern Min	Xiamen	爍爁
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	爍爁
	Quanzhou	䟙掣, 䟙爁, 䟙媽, 䟙光, 相爁電
	Jinjiang	䟙爁
	Yongchun	雷婆
	Zhangzhou	爍爁
	Taipei	搉爍爁
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	爍爁
	Kaohsiung	閃電, 爍爁
	Yilan	閃電, 爍爁
	Changhua (Lukang)	爍爁
	Taichung	爍爁
	Tainan	閃電, 爍爁
	Hsinchu	爍爁
	Kinmen	爍爁
	Penghu (Magong)	爍爁
	Penang (Hokkien)	爍爁
	Singapore (Hokkien)	爍爁
	Manila (Hokkien)	䟙爁, 䟙掣, 閃電
	Chaozhou	閃電
	Shantou	阿公睨目
	Jieyang	阿公睨目
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	閃電
	Pontianak (Teochew)	雷公睨目
	Wenchang	焱爍
	Haikou	焱爍
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	雷公閃電
Wu	Shanghai	霍閃, 閃電
	Shanghai (Chongming)	霍閃
	Suzhou	霍閃
	Danyang	霍閃
	Hangzhou	霍閃
	Hangzhou (Fuyang)	霍閃
	Ningbo	龍光閃, 龍山
	Wenzhou	爍龍, 爍電
	Jinhua	火閃
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	火閃
	Yongkang	霍閃
	Pujiang	霍閃
	Dongyang	火閃
	Pan'an	霍閃
	Wuyi	霍閃
	Lanxi	霍閃
Xiang	Changsha	閃, 閃子
	Loudi	霍閃, 上水
	Shuangfeng	霍閃
	Qinglong (Changliu Laba Miao)	火閃, 閃

References

• “霍”, 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

霍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku)
• Kun: にわか (niwaka)

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Korean

Hanja

霍 • (gwak) (hangeul 곽, revised gwak, McCune–Reischauer kwak, Yale kwak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

霍: Hán Nôm readings: hoắc, quắc

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