歐

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See also: 欧
歐 U+6B50, 歐
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B50
← 歏
[U+6B4F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 歑 →
[U+6B51]

Translingual

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Japanese 欧
Simplified 欧
Traditional 歐

Han character

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歐 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口弓人 (SRNO), four-corner 77782, composition ⿰區欠)

Derived characters

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 571, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16185
  • Dae Jaweon: page 959, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2149, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6B50

Chinese

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trad. 歐
simp. 欧
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 歐 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 歐 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 歐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qoː, *qoːʔ) : phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 欠 (“to yawn; to exhale”) – to vomit (original form of 嘔).

Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Note:
  • au - vernacular (incl. surname);
  • o͘/o/io - literary.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 歐
Mandarin Beijing /ou⁵⁵/
Harbin /ou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /nou²¹/
Jinan /ŋou²¹³/
Qingdao /ɣou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ou²⁴/
Xi'an /ŋou²¹/
Xining /nɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /əu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ou³¹/
Ürümqi /ɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ŋəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /ŋəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ŋəu⁵⁵/
/əu⁵⁵/ 新
Kunming /əu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /əɯ³¹/
Hefei /ʐɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɣəu¹¹/
Pingyao /ŋəu¹³/
Hohhot /ŋəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /ɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔei³³/
Wenzhou /au³³/
Hui Shexian /niu³¹/
/ŋiu³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ŋəu³³/
Xiangtan /ŋəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /ŋiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /eu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /eu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ɐu⁵³/
Nanning /ɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /ɐu⁵³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ɔ⁵⁵/
/au⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /eu⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /e⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /au³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ɔu²³/
Rime
Character 歐
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏侯切
Baxter 'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəw/
Li
Rong 		/ʔu/
Wang
Li 		/əu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		au1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 歐
Reading # 1/2
No. 10583
Phonetic
component 		區
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		謳
Old
Chinese 		/*qoː/

Definitions

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歐

  1. Short for 歐羅巴／欧罗巴 (Ōuluóbā, “Europe”).
    歐洲／欧洲  ―  Ōuzhōu  ―  Europe
    東歐／东欧  ―  Dōng-Ōu  ―  Eastern Europe
    歐化／欧化  ―  ōuhuà  ―  to Europeanise
  2. Short for 歐盟／欧盟 (Ōuméng, “European Union”).
    英歐關係／英欧关系  ―  Yīng Ōu guānxì  ―  UK-EU relationship
  3. Short for 歐元／欧元 (ōuyuán, “euro”).
    二十歐／二十欧  ―  èrshí ōu  ―  twenty euros
  4. Short for 歐姆／欧姆 (ōumǔ, “ohm”).
  5. Alternative form of 謳／讴 (ōu, “to sing”)
  6. Alternative form of 毆／殴 (ōu, “to beat; to strike”)
  7. a surname
Synonyms
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Dialectal synonyms of 歐元 (“euro”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 歐元
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 歐元
Cantonese Hong Kong 歐元, 歐羅, 歐
Southern Min Xiamen 歐元
Quanzhou 歐元
Zhangzhou 歐元

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 歐 – see 嘔 (“to vomit; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 嘔).

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

欧

Kyūjitai

歐

Kanji

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歐

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 欧)

  1. Europe

Readings

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  • Go-on: う (u)
  • Kan-on: おう (ō)
  • Kun: うたう (utau, 歐う)←うたふ (utafu, 歐ふ, historical)、はく (haku, 歐く)

Korean

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Etymology

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From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is 우 (u) based on Middle Chinese 歐 (MC 'uw).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

歐 (eumhun 구라파 구 (gurapa gu))

  1. hanja form? of 구 (“Europe”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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歐: Hán Nôm readings: âu

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