呠

呠

呠 U+5460, 呠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5460 ← 呟 [U+545F] CJK Unified Ideographs 呡 → [U+5461]

Translingual

Han character

呠 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口木一 (RDM), four-corner 6503₀, composition ⿰口本)

References

• KangXi: page 181, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3428
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 598, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5460

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 + phonetic 本 (OC *pɯːnʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		呠

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pěn (pen³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pan³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pěn
    • Wade–Giles: pʻên³
    • Yale: pěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: peen
    • Palladius: пэнь (pɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰən²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pan³
    • Yale: pan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pen³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɐn³³/

Definitions

呠

1. ^‡ to spurt; to blow out; to puff out; to snort

References

• “呠”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		呠
alternative forms		本

Borrowed from Malay pun.

Pronunciation

• Min Nan (POJ): pún

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• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Penang, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pún
    • Tâi-lô: pún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: puon
    • IPA (Penang): /pun⁴⁴⁵/
    • IPA (Singapore): /pun⁴²/

Definitions

呠

1. (Malaysia and Singapore Hokkien) also

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 也 (“also, too”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		亦
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		也
Mandarin	Beijing	也
	Taiwan	也
	Jinan	也
	Xi'an	也
	Wuhan	也
	Chengdu	也
	Guilin	也
	Yangzhou	也
	Hefei	也
	Malaysia	也
	Singapore	也
Cantonese	Guangzhou	都, 亦
	Hong Kong	都, 亦, 亦都
	Macau	都, 亦 formal
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	都, 也
	Taishan	亦
	Kaiping (Chikan)	亦, 都, 亦都
	Yangjiang	也
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	都
	Singapore (Guangfu)	都, 亦都
Gan	Nanchang	也
Hakka	Meixian	也
	Wuhua (Meilin)	也
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乜, 也
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	嘛
	Kuching (Hepo)	呠
Huizhou	Jixi	也
Jin	Taiyuan	也
Min Bei	Jian'ou	也
Min Dong	Fuzhou	也
Min Nan	Xiamen	也, 嘛
	Quanzhou	也, 嘛
	Zhangzhou	也, 嘛
	Taipei	也, 嘛
	Penang (Hokkien)	呠
	Singapore (Hokkien)	也, 呠, 嘛
	Manila (Hokkien)	也, 嘛
	Chaozhou	也
	Shantou	也
	Jieyang	也
	Singapore (Teochew)	呠, 也, 嘛
	Pontianak (Teochew)	也
	Wenchang	也
Wu	Shanghai	也
	Suzhou	亦
	Wenzhou	也
Xiang	Changsha	也
	Shuangfeng	也

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Japanese

Kanji

呠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ほん (hon)
• Kan-on: ほん (hon)