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噓

噓

噓 U+5653, 噓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5653
← 噒
[U+5652] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 噔 →
[U+5654]
See also: 嘘

Translingual

Han character

噓 (radical 30 口+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口卜心一 (RYPM), four-corner 61017, composition ⿰口虛)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 209, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4206
  • Dae Jaweon: page 429, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 675, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+5653

Chinese

trad. 噓
simp. 嘘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 噓
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 口 ‎(“mouth”) + phonetic 虛 ‎(OC *kʰa, *qʰa) – to exhale, blow out from the mouth. Note that 虛 means empty, void, hence connotations of “empty via the mouth”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 噓 噓
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 朽居切 許御切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨʌ/ /hɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiɔ/ /hiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiɔ/ /xiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɨə̆/ /hɨə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /xiɔ/ /xiɔH/
Wang
Li		 /xĭo/ /xĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯wo/ /xi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xū xù

Definitions

噓

  1. to slowly exhale
  2. to sigh; to lament
  3. to praise; to flatter
  4. to be burnt by steam
  5. (Mandarin) hush! shh!

References

Japanese

Kanji

噓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

噓 • ‎(heo) (hangeul 허, revised heo, McCune-Reischauer hŏ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

噓 (hờ)

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