# 嗚

| 嗚 | U+55DA, &#21978; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55DA |
| ← 嗙 [U+55D9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嗛 → [U+55DB] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嗚 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 口竹口火 (RHRF), four-corner 6702$_7$, composition ⿰口烏)

#### Derived characters

* 𤀙, 𫉩, 𭌨

#### Related characters

* 呜 (Simplified Chinese)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 203, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4084
* Dae Jaweon: page 425, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 668, character 15
* Unihan data for U+55DA

## 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 *qaː) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 烏 (OC *qaː).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wū (wu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wu$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): ŭ
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): o͘
    (Teochew, Peng'im): u$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$u
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wū
*** Zhuyin: ㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wu
*** Wade–Giles: wu$^1$
*** Yale: wū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: u
*** Palladius: у (u)
*** Sinological IPA : /u⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wu$^1$
*** Yale: wū
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wu$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wu$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /wuː⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ŭ
*** Sinological IPA : /u⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
*** Tâi-lô: oo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: of
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: u$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: u
*** Sinological IPA : /u³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$u
*** MiniDict: u$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$u
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /u⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: 'u
Rime :
| Character | 嗚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 哀都切 |
| Baxter | 'u |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔuo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔuo/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔo/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔɔ/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔo/ |
| Wang Li | /u/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔuo/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wū |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wu$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*qaː/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 嗚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13078 |
| Phonetic component | 烏 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 烏 |
| Old Chinese | /*qaː/ |

### Definitions

嗚
* (onomatopoeia) Sound of sobbing or crying.

#### Compounds

* 一命嗚呼／一命呜呼 (yīmìngwūhū)
* 喑嗚／喑呜
* 喑嗚叱吒／喑呜叱吒
* 嗚呼／呜呼 (wūhū)
* 嗚咂／呜咂
* 嗚呼哀哉／呜呼哀哉 (wūhū'āizāi)
* 嗚咽／呜咽 (wūyè)
* 嗚唈／呜唈
* 嗚啞／呜哑
* 嗚嗚／呜呜 (wūwū)
* 嗚嗚咽咽／呜呜咽咽
* 嗚噎／呜噎
* 嗚軋／呜轧
* 噫嗚／噫呜

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00656
* “嗚”, 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)
* (expression) oh, ah, alas
* to weep

#### Readings

* Go-on: う (u)
* Kan-on: お (o)
* Kun: あ (a, 嗚)

#### Compounds

* 嗚咽(おえつ) (oetsu)
* 嗚呼(ああ) (ā)

## Korean
### Hanja

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

嗚: Hán Nôm readings: ô, o, ọ, ỏ, u, ú
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#### References

* Nom Foundation