呼

See also: 呯 and 謼

呼 U+547C, 呼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-547C ← 呻 [U+547B] CJK Unified Ideographs 命 → [U+547D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

呼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 6204₉, composition ⿰口乎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3471
• Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 605, character 2
• Unihan data for U+547C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		呼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
罅	*qʰraːs
呼	*qʰaː
軤	*qʰaː
苸	*qʰaː
嘑	*qʰaː
歑	*qʰaː
謼	*qʰaː, *qʰaːs
滹	*qʰaː
乎	*ɢaː
虖	*qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
嫭	*ɢaːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth.

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): fu¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fû
• Eastern Min (BUC): hù / kŭ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ho͘ / kho͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu¹ / u¹ / hou¹ / kou¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹hu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hu
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Yale: hū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: fu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu¹
    • Yale: fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fû
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /fu²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: hù / kŭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵³/, /kʰu⁵⁵/

Note:

• hù - literary;
• kŭ - vernacular.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho͘ / kho͘
    • Tâi-lô: hoo / khoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hof, qof
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ⁴⁴/, /kʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ³³/, /kʰɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ⁴⁴/, /kʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔ⁴⁴/, /kʰɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ⁴⁴/, /kʰɔ⁴⁴/

Note:

• ho͘ - literary;
• kho͘ - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu¹ / u¹ / hou¹ / kou¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hu / u / hou / khou
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³³/, /u³³/, /hou³³/, /kʰou³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹hu
    • MiniDict: hu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹hu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /hu⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: xu

Rime
Character	呼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	荒烏切
Baxter	xu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huo/
Pan Wuyun	/huo/
Shao Rongfen	/xo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɔ/
Li Rong	/xo/
Wang Li	/xu/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤa/, /*qʰˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	呼	呼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hū	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ xu ›	‹ xuH ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁa/	/*qʰˁa-s/
English	call out, shout	call out, shout
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	呼
Reading #	1/1
No.	5181
Phonetic component	乎
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	呼
Old Chinese	/*qʰaː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 呼

1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
2. to shout; to yell
3. to call (someone); to address
4. (onomatopoeia, of wind) howling
5. (Chinese phonetics) medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口／开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合／开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)

Antonyms

• (to breathe out): 吸 (xī)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiāo (xiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siao
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao¹
    • Yale: syāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiau
    • Palladius: сяо (sjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 呼

1. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 詨／𰵦 (xiào, “to shout”).

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syu
    • Wade–Giles: hsü¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 呼

1. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 吁 (xū, “sigh (expression of fatigue)”).

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hè (he⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hè
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hè
    • Wade–Giles: ho⁴
    • Yale: hè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: heh
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 呼

1. ^† Expression of anger.

Pronunciation 5

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xià (xia⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄚˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xià
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄚˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sià
    • Wade–Giles: hsia⁴
    • Yale: syà
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiah
    • Palladius: ся (sja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ä⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 呼

1. ^‡ (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 罅 (xià, “crack; rift”).

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

呼

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. call
2. call out to
3. invite

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kun: よぶ (yobu, 呼ぶ, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 呼(こ)格(かく) (kokaku): vocative case

Kanji in this term
呼
こ Grade: 6
kan'on

Affix

呼(こ) • (ko) 

1. to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
2. to shout; to yell
3. to call (someone); to address

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Korean

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸʷo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [호]

Hanja

Wikisource

呼 (eumhun 부를 호 (bureul ho))

1. hanja form^? of 호 (“to call; to shout”)
2. hanja form^? of 호 (“to exhale; to breathe out”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 호소(呼訴) (hoso)
• 호응(呼應) (ho'eung)
• 호칭(呼稱) (hoching)
• 호출(呼出) (hochul)
• 호명(呼名) (homyeong)
• 환호(歡呼) (hwanho)
• 환호성(歡呼聲) (hwanhoseong)
• 호흡(呼吸) (hoheup)
• 호흡기(呼吸器) (hoheupgi)

References

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

呼: Hán Nôm readings: hô, há, hao, hào

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