U+6E56, 湖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E56

[U+6E55]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6E57]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 85, +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水十口月 (EJRB), four-corner 37120, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 637, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17836
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1044, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1669, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6E56

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːls
*kaːls
*kɯ, *kas
*kaː, *kʰaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
*kaː, *kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːs
*kaːs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
*qʰaː, *ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
*ɡaːʔ
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *kas, *kʰa
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *ɡa
*kas
*kas
*kas
*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡaː) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *ɡaː).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • ô͘ - vernacular;
  • hô͘ - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuo/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔ/
Li
Rong
/ɣo/
Wang
Li
/ɣu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˁa/
English lake

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4247
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaː/

Definitions

  1. lake; loch
  2. Short for 湖北 (Húběi, “Hubei Province”).
  3. Short for 湖南 (Húnán, “Hunan Province”).

Compounds

Descendants

  • Ai-Cham: fu²
  • Korean: (ho)
  • Vietnamese: hồ
  • Zhuang: huz

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. lake

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
みずうみ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

(mizu, water) + (umi, sea)

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana みずうみ, rōmaji mizuumi, historical hiragana みづうみ)

  1. a lake (body of water)

Korean

Hanja

(ho) (hangeul , McCuneReischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(hồ)

  1. lake

Usage notes

  • The modern Vietnamese word for lake is hồ.

References

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