渥

渥

渥 U+6E25, 渥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E25 ← 渤 [U+6E24] CJK Unified Ideographs 渦 → [U+6E26]

Translingual

Han character

渥 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水尸一土 (ESMG) or XX水尸一 (XXESM), four-corner 3711₄, composition ⿰氵屋)

References

• KangXi: page 634, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17770
• Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1689, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6E25

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		渥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (屋) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
握	*qroːɡ
幄	*qroːɡ
偓	*qroːɡ
渥	*qroːɡ
齷	*qroːɡ
楃	*qroːɡ
喔	*qroːɡ
腛	*qroːɡ
媉	*qroːɡ
屋	*qoːɡ
剭	*qoːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qroːɡ) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 屋 (OC *qoːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wò (wo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ak¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wò
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
    • Wade–Giles: wo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ak¹
    • Yale: āk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ak⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: eg¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɐk̚⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ak
    • Tâi-lô: ak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ag
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ak̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ak̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ak̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ak̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ak̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔˠʌk̚/▼

Rime
Character	渥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	於角切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɔk̚/
Wang Li	/ɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yue

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤrok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qroːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wò
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔæwk ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁrok/ (or *ʔˁrok ?)
English	moisten, smear
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	渥
Reading #	1/1
No.	13069
Phonetic component	屋
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	渥
Old Chinese	/*qroːɡ/

Definitions

渥

1. moisten, soak
2. great, deep
3. dye
4. to enrich

Compounds

優渥／优渥 殷渥 渥丹 渥太華／渥太华 (Wòtàihuá)

渥恩 渥惠 渥汗

渥然 渥眄 隆渥

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Japanese

Kanji

渥

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. moisten, make moist
2. kind, cordial
3. glossy

Readings

• On (unclassified): あく (aku)
• Kun: あつい (atsui, 渥い)

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Korean

Hanja

渥 (eum 악 (ak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

渥: Hán Nôm readings: ốc

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