詡

See also: 诩

詡 U+8A61, 詡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A61 ← 詠 [U+8A60] CJK Unified Ideographs 詢 → [U+8A62]

Translingual

Han character

詡 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜口尸一一 (YRSMM), four-corner 0762₀, composition ⿰訁羽)

1. boast, brag
2. popular, well known
3. to flatter

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1156, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35410
• Dae Jaweon: page 1622, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3972, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8A61

Chinese

trad.		詡
simp.		诩
alternative forms		𧩘

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
詡	*qʰʷaʔ
栩	*qʰʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
珝	*qʰʷaʔ
祤	*qʰʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
羽	*ɢʷaʔ, *ɢʷas
頨	*peːns, *ɢʷaʔ, *qʰʷan

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷaʔ) : semantic 言 + phonetic 羽 (OC *ɢʷaʔ, *ɢʷas).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǔ (xu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hy³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
    • Wade–Giles: hsü³
    • Yale: syǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: heoi²
    • Yale: héui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hy³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hy³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: xjuX

Rime
Character	詡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	況羽切
Baxter	xjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/hioX/
Shao Rongfen	/xioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huə̆X/
Li Rong	/xioX/
Wang Li	/xĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷaʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	詡
Reading #	1/1
No.	15942
Phonetic component	羽
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詡
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷaʔ/

Definitions

詡

1. (literary) to boast

Compounds

• 自詡／自诩 (zìxǔ)
• 詡詡／诩诩
• 誇詡／夸诩

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “诩”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 268.

Japanese

Kanji

詡

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: ほこる (hokoru)

Korean

Hanja

詡 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

詡: Hán Nôm readings: hủ

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