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みずうみ U+6E56, 湖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E56

[U+6E55]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6E57]

Translingual

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Han character

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Stroke order
 

みずうみ (Kangxi radical 85, みず+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input みずじゅうくちがつ (EJRB), four-corner 37120, composition えびす)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 637, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17836
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1044, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1669, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6E56

Chinese

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trad. みずうみ
simp. # みずうみ
 
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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character みずうみ
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい形声けいせい, OC *ɡaː) : semantic みず (water) + phonetic えびす (OC *ɡaː).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • ô͘ - vernacular;
  • hô͘ - literary.
Note:
  • ou5 - vernacular;
  • hu5 - literary.

Rime
Character みずうみ
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) くしげ (33)
Final (いん) (23)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) I
Fanqie きり
Baxter hu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuo/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔ/
Li
Rong
/ɣo/
Wang
Li
/ɣu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
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BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character みずうみ
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˁa/
English lake

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 みずうみ
Reading # 1/1
No. 4247
Phonetic
component
ふる
Rime
group
さかな
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
えびす
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaː/

Definitions

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みずうみ

  1. lake; loch
  2. (Southern Min, in place names) basin
    みずうみうちみずうみ  ―  Nèi  ―  Neihu District, Taipei
    奮起ふんきみずうみ奋起みずうみ  ―  Fènqǐ  ―  Fenqihu (a town in Zhuqi, Chiayi, Taiwan)
  3. Short for 湖北こほく (Húběi, “Hubei Province”).
  4. Short for 湖南こなん (Húnán, “Hunan Province”).

Synonyms

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  • (lake):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (みずうみ):

Others:

Japanese

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Kanji

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みずうみ

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. lake

Readings

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Compounds

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
みずうみ
みずうみ
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
 みずうみ on Japanese Wikipedia

みず (mizu, water) +‎ うみ (umi, sea)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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みずうみ(みずうみ) (mizuumiみづうみ (miduumi)?

  1. a lake (body of water)

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese みずうみ (MC hu). Recorded as Middle Korean (hwo) (Yale: hwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙くんもうかい / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Wikisource

みずうみ (eumhun 호수 (hosu ho))

  1. hanja form? of (lake)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際こくさい退すさけい學會がっかい 大邱たいきゅうけいきた支部しぶ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子でんし字典じてん. [1]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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みずうみ: Hán Nôm readings: hồ

  1. lake

Usage notes

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  • The modern Vietnamese word for lake is hồ.

References

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