# 寤

| 寤 | U+5BE4, &#23524; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BE4 |
| ← 寣 [U+5BE3] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 寥 → [U+5BE5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

寤 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十女一口 (JVMR), four-corner 3026$_1$, composition ⿱宀𤕻)
* few, scarce
* empty, deserted

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 291, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7291
* Dae Jaweon: page 575, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 950, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5BE4

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 吾 | *ŋraː, *ŋaː |
| 衙 | *ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ |
| 鼯 | *ŋaː |
| 浯 | *ŋaː |
| 珸 | *ŋaː |
| 郚 | *ŋaː |
| 齬 | *ŋaː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ |
| 鯃 | *ŋaː |
| 娪 | *ŋaː |
| 梧 | *ŋaː |
| 峿 | *ŋaː |
| 五 | *ŋaːʔ |
| 伍 | *ŋaːʔ |
| 寤 | *ŋaːs |
| 啎 | *ŋaːs |
| 晤 | *ŋaːs |
| 悟 | *ŋaːs |
| 逜 | *ŋaːs |
| 窹 | *ŋaːs |
| 捂 | *ŋaːs |
| 鋙 | *ŋa, *ŋaʔ |
| 語 | *ŋaʔ, *ŋas |
| 圄 | *ŋaʔ |
| 敔 | *ŋaʔ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːs) : abbreviated semantic 㝱 (“dream”) + phonetic 吾 (OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː).

### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wù (wu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ng$^6$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$ngu
* 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: ng$^6$
*** Yale: ngh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ng$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ng$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋ̍²²/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$ngu
*** MiniDict: ngu$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$ngu
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ŋu²³/
* Middle Chinese: nguH
Rime :
| Character | 寤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 五故切 |
| Baxter | nguH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋuo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋuo$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋo$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋɔ$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋo$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ŋuo$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ng$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤa-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 寤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wù |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngu$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋˁa-s/ |
| English | awake |
| 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. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 寤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13149 |
| Phonetic component | 五 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 誤 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋaːs/ |

### Definitions

寤
* (literary) to wake up; to awake
    Antonym: 寐 (mèi)
* (alt. form 悟) to become aware; to realize; to awaken

### Compounds

* 寤夢／寤梦
* 寤寐 (wùmèi)
* 寤寐不寧／寤寐不宁
* 寤寐以求
* 寤寐求之
* 寤懷／寤怀
* 寤生
* 早迷晚寤
* 覺寤／觉寤

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01049
* “寤”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ご (go)
* Kun: さめる (sameru)

## Korean
### Hanja

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

寤: Hán Nôm readings: ngộ, ngụ, ngù, ngú
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