沍

See also: 冱

沍 U+6C8D, 沍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C8D ← 沌 [U+6C8C] CJK Unified Ideographs 沎 → [U+6C8E]

Translingual

Han character

沍 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水一女一 (EMVM) or 難水一女一 (XEMVM), four-corner 3111₇, composition ⿰氵互)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 610, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17194
• Dae Jaweon: page 1003, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1562, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C8D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沍

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 互 (OC *ɡaːs).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hù (hu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hù
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hù
    • Wade–Giles: hu⁴
    • Yale: hù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huh
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wu⁶
    • Yale: wuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː²²/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-qˤaʔ-s/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	沍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hù
Middle Chinese	‹ huH ›
Old Chinese	/*N-qˁaʔ-s/
English	shut in, stop up
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.

Definitions

沍

1. ^† freezing
2. ^† stopped up, closed off

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 沍 – see 涸 (“dry; to dry up”). (This character is a variant form of 涸).

References

• “沍”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02028
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02232-002

Japanese

Kanji

沍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ご (go)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: かれる (kareru); さえる (saeru, 沍える); こおる (kōru, 沍る); ひえる (hieru, 沍える)

Korean

Hanja

沍 (eum 호 (ho))

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