訏

訏 U+8A0F, 訏 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8A0F ← 討 [U+8A0E] CJK Unified Ideographs 訐 → [U+8A10]

Translingual

Han character

訏 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜口一木 (YRMD), four-corner 0164₀, composition ⿰訁于)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1147, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35233
• Dae Jaweon: page 1614, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3940, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8A0F

Chinese

trad.		訏
simp.		𬣙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
侉	*qaːls
夸	*kʰʷraː
姱	*kʰʷraː
胯	*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨	*kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇	*kʰʷraː
垮	*kʰʷraːʔ
銙	*kʰʷraːʔ
骻	*kʰʷraːʔ
咵	*kʰʷraːʔ
釫	*ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦	*ɡʷraːs
鮬	*pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀	*qʰʷl'aː
扝	*kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳	*kʰʷaː
郀	*kʰʷaː
挎	*kʰʷaː
袴	*kʰʷaːs
絝	*kʰʷaːs
褲	*kʰʷaːs
恗	*qʰaː
洿	*ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠	*ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠	*ɢʷlaːʔ
污	*qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇	*qʷaː
圬	*qʷaː
鴮	*qʷaː
盓	*qʷaː
汙	*qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗	*qʰʷl'a
摴	*qʰʷl'a
荂	*pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩	*qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁	*qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱	*qʰʷa
訏	*qʰʷa
扜	*qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴	*qʰʷa
冔	*qʰʷaʔ
紆	*qʷa
陓	*qʷa
迂	*qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶	*qʷa
于	*ɢʷa
盂	*ɢʷa
竽	*ɢʷa
邘	*ɢʷa
玗	*ɢʷa
芋	*ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅	*ɢʷa
釪	*ɢʷa
骬	*ɢʷa
謣	*ɢʷla
宇	*ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hy¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syu
    • Wade–Giles: hsü¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: heoi¹
    • Yale: hēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hy¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hy⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xju

Rime
Character	訏
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	況于切
Baxter	xju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/hio/
Shao Rongfen	/xio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huə̆/
Li Rong	/xio/
Wang Li	/xĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰ(r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	訏
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xū
Middle Chinese	‹ xju ›
Old Chinese	/*qʷʰ(r)a/
English	great
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	訏
Reading #	1/1
No.	15696
Phonetic component	于
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	訏
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷa/

Definitions

訏

1. boast, exaggerate
2. great, broad

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “𬣙”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

Kanji

訏

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. boast
2. exaggerate
3. great
4. broad

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)、こ (ko)
• Kun: いつわる (itsuwaru)

Korean

Hanja

訏 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

1. big
2. deceive
3. exaggerate, boast