嗚

See also: 鳴 and 呜

嗚	U+55DA, 嗚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DA

← 嗙
[U+55D9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嗛 →
[U+55DB]

Translingual

Han character

嗚 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口火 (RHRF), four-corner 6702₇, composition ⿰口烏)

Derived characters

𤀙, 𫉩, 𭌨

Related characters

呜 (Simplified Chinese)

References

KangXi: page 203, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4084
Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 668, character 15
Unihan data for U+55DA

Chinese

trad.		嗚
simp.		呜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
烏	*qaː
嗚	*qaː
鰞	*qaː
歍	*qaː
鎢	*qaː
瑦	qaː, qaːʔ
鄔	qaː, qaːʔ, *qas
螐	*qaː
隖	*qaːʔ
塢	qaːʔ, qaːs
溩	*qaːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 烏 (OC *qaː).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wū (wu¹)
(Zhuyin): ㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹
Min Dong (BUC): ŭ
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): o͘
(Teochew, Peng'im): u¹
Wu (Wiktionary): u (T1)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wū
  - Zhuyin: ㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wu
  - Wade–Giles: wu¹
  - Yale: wū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: u
  - Palladius: у (u)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: wu¹
  - Yale: wū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wu¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ŭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
  - Tâi-lô: oo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: of
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: u¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: u
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u³³/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: u (T1)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /v̩ʷ⁵³/

Middle Chinese: /ʔuo/

Rime
Character	嗚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	哀都切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɔ/
Li Rong	/ʔo/
Wang Li	/u/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qaː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嗚
Reading #	1/1
No.	13078
Phonetic component	烏
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	烏
Old Chinese	/*qaː/

Definitions

嗚

(onomatopoeia) Sound of sobbing or crying.

Compounds

一命嗚呼／一命呜呼 (yīmìngwūhū)
喑嗚／喑呜
喑嗚叱吒／喑呜叱吒
嗚呼／呜呼 (wūhū)
嗚呼哀哉／呜呼哀哉 (wūhū'āizāi)

嗚咂／呜咂
嗚咽／呜咽 (wūyè)
嗚唈／呜唈
嗚啞／呜哑
嗚嗚／呜呜 (wūwū)

嗚嗚咽咽／呜呜咽咽
嗚噎／呜噎
嗚軋／呜轧
噫嗚／噫呜

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00656
“嗚”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

嗚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

(expression) oh, ah, alas
to weep

Readings

Go-on: う (u)
Kan-on: お (o)^{←を (wo, historical)}
Kun: あ (a, 嗚)

Compounds

嗚咽(おえつ) (oetsu)
嗚呼(ああ) (ā)

Korean

Hanja

嗚 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

嗚: Hán Nôm readings: ô, o, ọ, ỏ, u, ú

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References

Nom Foundation