祜

祜 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火十口 (IFJR), four-corner 3426₀, composition ⿰礻古)

• 𫳫

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24671
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2390, character 24
• Unihan data for U+795C

Historical forms of the character 祜
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡaːʔ) : semantic 礻 (“divine”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

祜

1. favor from heaven; blessing

• 福 (fú), 祝福 (zhùfú), 祚 (zuò)

• “祜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. blessing
2. happiness
3. prosperity

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• Go-on: ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祜い)^{←さいはひ (saifafi, 祜ひ, historical)}
• Nanori: さち (sachi)

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ko₁⟩ in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).

• 多祜(たこ)の浦(うら) (Tako-no-ura)

祜 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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