# 塢

| 塢 | U+5862, &#22626; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5862 |
| ← 塡 [U+5861] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 塣 → [U+5863] |

## Translingual
### Han character

塢 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口火 (GHRF), four-corner 4712$_7$, composition ⿰土烏)
* entrenchment, bank, low wall

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 236, character 18
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5357
* Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 472, character 14
* Unihan data for U+5862

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 烏 | *qaː |
| 嗚 | *qaː |
| 鰞 | *qaː |
| 歍 | *qaː |
| 鎢 | *qaː |
| 瑦 | *qaː, *qaːʔ |
| 鄔 | *qaː, *qaːʔ, *qas |
| 螐 | *qaː |
| 隖 | *qaːʔ |
| 塢 | *qaːʔ, *qaːs |
| 溩 | *qaːʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qaːʔ, *qaːs) : semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 烏 (OC *qaː)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wù (wu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wu$^2$ / ou$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ù
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wù
*** Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wù
*** Wade–Giles: wu$^4$
*** Yale: wù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
*** Palladius: у (u)
*** Sinological IPA : /u⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wu$^2$ / ou$^3$
*** Yale: wú / ou
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wu$^2$ / ou$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wu$^2$ / ou$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /wuː³⁵/, /ou̯³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
*** Tâi-lô: ù
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ux
*** IPA (Xiamen): /u²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /u²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /u¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²¹/
* Middle Chinese: 'uX
Rime :
| Character | 塢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 安古切 |
| Baxter | 'uX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔuo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔuo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /u$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔuo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qaːʔ/, /*qaːs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 塢 | 塢 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13086 | 13090 |
| Phonetic component | 烏 | 烏 |
| Rime group | 魚 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 隖 | |
| Old Chinese | /*qaːʔ/ | /*qaːs/ |
| Notes | 同隖見通俗文 | |

### Definitions

塢
* (literary) castle or obstruction that provides protection
* (literary) small market town
* hollow; place with elevated surroundings and a depressed center
* structure with high sides to keep the wind out (e.g. a dock)
    船塢／船坞 ― chuánwù ― dock
    花塢／花坞 ― huāwù ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Synonyms

* (village):
* 堡子
* 屯 (literary, or in compounds)
* 屯落 (túnluò)
* 村塢／村坞 (cūnwù) (literary)
* 村子 (cūnzi)
* 村盤子／村盘子 ('cun$^1$ pon$^2$ zi) (Gan)
* 村莊／村庄 (cūnzhuāng)
* 村落 (cūnluò)
* 社里 (Hokkien)
* 聚 (jù) (literary, or in compounds)
* 聚落 (jùluò)
* 莊／庄 (zhuāng)
* 莊仔／庄仔 (Hakka)
* 莊子／庄子
* 莊頭／庄头 (Hakka, Hokkien)
* 農村／农村 (nóngcūn)
* 農莊／农庄 (nóngzhuāng)
* 鄉村／乡村 (xiāngcūn)
* 鄉莊／乡庄 (xiāngzhuāng)

#### Compounds

* 南塢／南坞 (Nánwù)
* 好萊塢／好莱坞
* 山塢／山坞 (shānwù)
* 船塢／船坞 (chuánwù)
* 郿塢／郿坞 (Méi Wù)

#### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00803

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* Alternative form of 隖

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): お (o)、う (u)
* Kun: とりで (toride)、むら (mura)

### References

* Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 061210

## Korean
### Hanja

塢 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

塢: Hán Nôm readings: ổ, ọ, ủ, ụ
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