# 吽

| 吽 | U+543D, &#21565; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-543D |
| ← 吼 [U+543C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 吾 → [U+543E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

吽 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹手 (RHQ), four-corner 6500$_0$, composition ⿰口牛)

#### Derived characters

* 𭌨

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 180, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3378
* Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 589, character 6
* Unihan data for U+543D

## Chinese
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): óu (ou$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄡˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hau$^1$ / hau$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: óu
*** Zhuyin: ㄡˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: óu
*** Wade–Giles: ou$^2$
*** Yale: óu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: our
*** Palladius: оу (ou)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀoʊ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hau$^1$ / hau$^2$
*** Yale: hāu / háu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hau$^1$ / hau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: heo$^1$ / heo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɐu̯⁵⁵/, /hɐu̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: xuwX
Rime :
| Character | 吽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 呼后切 |
| Baxter | xuwX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /həu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /həu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xəu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /həw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /xu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /xəu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /xə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | hǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hau$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoːʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 吽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5159 |
| Phonetic component | 吽 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 吼 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰoːʔ/ |
| Notes | 同吼 |

#### Definitions

吽
* Only used in 吽牙.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hōng (hong$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄥ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hung$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hōng
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hong
*** Wade–Giles: hung$^1$
*** Yale: hūng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hong
*** Palladius: хун (xun)
*** Sinological IPA : /xʊŋ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hung$^1$
*** Yale: hūng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hung$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: hung$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hʊŋ⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

吽
* Used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽 (ǎn mānī bēimēi hōng).
* Used in 阿吽 (āhōng).

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese
    (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): ngau$^6$
    (Taishan, Wiktionary): ngeu$^5$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngau$^6$
*** Yale: ngauh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngau$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngeo$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɐu̯²²/
** (Taishanese, Taicheng)
*** Wiktionary: ngeu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ᵑɡeu³²/

#### Definitions

吽
* (Cantonese) dull; listless

#### Compounds

* 吽仔
* 吽哣
* 發吽哣／发吽哣

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): au$^3$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: au$^3$
*** Yale: au
*** Cantonese Pinyin: au$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: eo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɐu̯³³/

#### Definitions

吽
* (Cantonese) Alternative form of 漚／沤 (au$^3$)

### Etymology 5

* For pronunciation and definitions of 吽 – see 吼 (“to roar; to shout; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 吼).

### References

* Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “吽” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].
* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01034
* “吽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* bark, growl
* Used in Sanskrit transliterations

#### Readings

As "to bark, howl":
* Go-on: く (ku)、ぐ (gu)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)、ごう (gō)
* Kun: ほえる (hoeru, 吽える)
As transcription of Sanskrit हूँ (hūm̐):
* Go-on: おん (on)
* Kan-on: いん (in)
* Kan’yō-on: うん (un)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 吽
* うん Hyōgai
* kan'yōon
Kan'yoon pronunciation.

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) うん [úꜜǹ] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [ɯ̟̃ɴ]

### Noun

吽(うん) • (un)
* (Buddhism) the Sanskrit syllable hūṃ

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

吽 • (hu, eum, u) (hangeul 후, 음, 우, revised hu, eum, u, McCune–Reischauer hu, ŭm, u)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

吽: Hán Việt readings: hồng, hống, ngâu, oanh, ẩu
吽: Nôm readings: hống, ngào
* chữ Hán form of Hồng (“a personal name”).
* chữ Hán form of hồng (“transliteration of hūṃ (हूँ) in Buddhism”).

### References

* 1 2 3 Trần (1999).
* ↑ Thiều Chửu (1942).
* 1 2 Nguyễn (2014).
* 1 2 Nguyễn (1974).
* ↑ Nguyễn et al. (2009).