# 祜

| 祜 | U+795C, &#31068; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-795C |
| ← 祛 [U+795B] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 祝 → [U+795D] |

## Translingual
### Han character

祜 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火十口 (IFJR), four-corner 3426$_0$, composition ⿰礻古)

#### Derived characters

* 𫳫

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 27
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24671
* Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2390, character 24
* Unihan data for U+795C

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祜 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 箇 | *kaːls |
| 個 | *kaːls |
| 居 | *kɯ, *kas |
| 橭 | *kaː, *kʰaː |
| 嫴 | *kaː |
| 姑 | *kaː |
| 辜 | *kaː |
| 酤 | *kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ |
| 蛄 | *kaː |
| 鴣 | *kaː |
| 沽 | *kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs |
| 盬 | *kaː, *kaːʔ |
| 古 | *kaːʔ |
| 罟 | *kaːʔ |
| 估 | *kaːʔ |
| 鈷 | *kaːʔ |
| 詁 | *kaːʔ |
| 牯 | *kaːʔ |
| 故 | *kaːs |
| 固 | *kaːs |
| 稒 | *kaːɡs |
| 痼 | *kaːɡs |
| 錮 | *kaːɡs |
| 鯝 | *kaːɡs |
| 棝 | *kaːɡs |
| 凅 | *kaːɡs |
| 枯 | *kʰaː |
| 軲 | *kʰaː |
| 跍 | *kʰaː |
| 骷 | *kʰaː |
| 苦 | *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs |
| 葫 | *qʰaː, *ɡaː |
| 餬 | *ɡaː |
| 瑚 | *ɡaː |
| 湖 | *ɡaː |
| 鶘 | *ɡaː |
| 猢 | *ɡaː |
| 醐 | *ɡaː |
| 糊 | *ɡaː |
| 箶 | *ɡaː |
| 蝴 | *ɡaː |
| 胡 | *ɡaː |
| 瓳 | *ɡaː |
| 怙 | *ɡaːʔ |
| 祜 | *ɡaːʔ |
| 岵 | *ɡaːʔ |
| 婟 | *ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs |
| 楛 | *ɡaːʔ |
| 据 | *ka |
| 裾 | *ka |
| 琚 | *ka |
| 椐 | *ka, *kas, *kʰa |
| 鶋 | *ka |
| 蜛 | *ka |
| 崌 | *ka |
| 涺 | *ka |
| 腒 | *ka, *ɡa |
| 鋸 | *kas |
| 倨 | *kas |
| 踞 | *kas |
| 涸 | *ɡaːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡaːʔ): semantic 礻 (“divine”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): hù (hu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wu$^6$ / wu$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hō͘ / hǒ͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: hù
*** Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: hù
*** Wade–Giles: hu$^4$
*** Yale: hù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huh
*** Palladius: ху (xu)
*** Sinological IPA : /xu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: wu$^6$ / wu$^2$
*** Yale: wuh / wú
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wu$^6$ / wu$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wu$^6$ / wu$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /wuː²²/, /wuː³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hō͘
*** Tâi-lô: hōo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ho
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hɔ²²/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hǒ͘
*** Tâi-lô: hǒo
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ²²/
* Middle Chinese: huX
Rime :
| Character | 祜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 侯古切 |
| Baxter | huX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɦuo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɦuo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɣo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ɦɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ɣo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɣu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ɣuo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | hù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wu$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 祜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | hù |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ hu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ɡ]ˁaʔ/ |
| English | blessing |
| 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 | 祜 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4258 |
| Phonetic component | 古 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 戸 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡaːʔ/ |

### Definitions

祜
* favor from heaven; blessing

#### Synonyms

* 福 (fú), 祝福 (zhùfú), 祚 (zuò)

### Compounds

* 拉祜 (Lāhù)
* 拉祜族 (Lāhùzú)
* 拉祜語 / 拉祜语 (Lāhùyǔ)
* 薄祜

### References

* “祜”, 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)
* blessing
* happiness
* prosperity

#### Readings

(Can we verify this pronunciation?)
* Go-on: ご (go)
* Kan-on: こ (ko)
* Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祜い)
* Nanori: さち (sachi)

#### Usage notes

Used in Old Japanese as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ko$_1$⟩ in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE).

#### Compounds

* 多祜(たこ)の浦(うら) (Tako-no-ura)

## Korean
### Hanja

祜 • (ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)
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