渦

渦 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月月口 (EBBR), four-corner 3712₇, composition ⿰氵咼)

1. swirl, whirlpool, eddy

• KangXi: page 634, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17771
• Dae Jaweon: page 1041, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1651, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6E26

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kloːl, *qloːl) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).

渦

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• “渦”, 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–

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

• Go-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}; わ (wa)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}; わ (wa)
• Kan’yō-on: か (ka, Jōyō)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: うず (uzu, 渦, Jōyō)^{←うづ (udu, historical)}

/kwa/ → /ka/

From Middle Chinese 渦 (kwa?, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠]

渦 (hiragana か, rōmaji ka, historical hiragana くわ)

1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex

This reading is only ever found in compounds.

渦 (uzu): a vortex in colored smoke, caused by the passage of an airplane wing.

/udu/ → /udzu/ → /uzu/

From Old Japanese.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) う​ず [úꜜzù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝzɨᵝ]

渦 (hiragana うず, rōmaji uzu, historical hiragana うづ)

1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex
   • Early 700s, 播磨国風土記 (Harima no Kuni Fudoki, “Chronicles of the Country of Harima”)

     絞 (う)水 (づ)の淵 (ふち)あり。故 (かれ)、宇 (う)頭 (づ)川 (がわ)と号 (なづ)く。

     uzu no fuchi ari. Kare, Uzugawa to nazuku.

     There is a deep whirl / eddy pool there. As such, it is called “Uzugawa” (Eddy River).

渦 (eum 와 (wa))

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渦: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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