呼

Han character

呼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹火木 (RHFD), four-corner 6204₉, composition ⿰口乎)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔaːw (“to shout, cry out”). Cognate with Burmese အော် (au, “to shout, berate”), as well as with the following Sinitic words (STEDT):

• 嚆 (“to make noise”)
• 嚎 (“to howl, bawl”)
• 呴 (OC *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos, “to breathe on, yawn, roar”)
• 呵 (OC *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls, “to shout, cry out”)

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Kanji

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. call
2. call out to
3. invite

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ko̞]

Affix

呼(こ) • (ko) 

1. to breathe out, to exhale, to sigh
2. to shout, to yell
3. to call (someone), to address

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 呼 (MC xu). Recorded as Middle Korean 호 (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸʷo̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [호]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

呼

Wikisource 呼 (eumhun 부를 호 (bureul ho))

1. hanja form^? of 호 (“to call; to shout”)
2. hanja form^? of 호 (“to exhale; to breathe out”)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Han character

呼: Hán Nôm readings: hô, há, hao, hào

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