塢

See also: 坞

塢 U+5862, 塢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5862 ← 塡 [U+5861] CJK Unified Ideographs 塣 → [U+5863]

Translingual

Han character

塢 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土竹口火 (GHRF), four-corner 4712₇, composition ⿰土烏)

1. entrenchment, bank, low wall

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 236, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5357
• Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 472, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5862

Chinese

trad.		塢
simp.		坞
alternative forms		隖／坞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 塢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	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 *qaːʔ, *qaːs): semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 烏 (OC *qaː)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wu² / ou³
• Eastern Min (BUC): ó
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ou⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): o͘ / ó͘ / ù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wu² / ou³
    • Yale: wú / ou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wu² / ou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: wu² / ou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː³⁵/, /ou̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ou⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: o̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔu⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘
    • Tâi-lô: oo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: of
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ó͘
    • Tâi-lô: óo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: or
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
    • Tâi-lô: ù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ux
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /u²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /u¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'uX

Rime
Character	塢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	安古切
Baxter	'uX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔoX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɔX/
Li Rong	/ʔoX/
Wang Li	/uX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːʔ/, /*qaːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	塢	塢
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	13086	13090
Phonetic component	烏	烏
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	隖
Old Chinese	/*qaːʔ/	/*qaːs/
Notes	同隖見通俗文

Definitions

塢

1. (literary) castle or obstruction that provides protection
2. (literary) small market town
3. hollow; place with elevated surroundings and a depressed center
4. structure with high sides to keep the wind out (e.g. a dock)

   船塢／船坞  ―  chuánwù  ―  dock

   花塢／花坞  ―  huāwù  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• (village):

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• 堡子
• 屯 (literary, or in compounds)
• 屯落 (túnluò)
• 村塢 / 村坞 (cūnwù) (literary)
• 村子 (cūnzi)
• 村盤子 / 村盘子 ('cun¹ pon² zi) (Gan)
• 村莊 / 村庄 (cūnzhuāng)
• 村落 (cūnluò)
• 社里 (Hokkien)
• 聚 (jù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 聚落 (jùluò)
• 莊 / 庄 (zhuāng)
• 莊仔 / 庄仔 (Hakka)
• 莊子 / 庄子
• 莊社 / 庄社 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
• 莊頭 / 庄头 (Hakka, Hokkien)
• 農村 / 农村 (nóngcūn)
• 農莊 / 农庄 (nóngzhuāng)
• 鄉村 / 乡村 (xiāngcūn)
• 鄉莊 / 乡庄 (xiāngzhuāng)

Compounds

• 南塢 / 南坞 (Nánwù)
• 好萊塢 / 好莱坞
• 山塢 / 山坞 (shānwù)
• 船塢 / 船坞 (chuánwù)
• 郿塢 / 郿坞 (Méi Wù)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00803
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “坞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 249.

Japanese

Kanji

塢

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. alternative form of 隖

Readings

• On (unclassified): お (o)、う (u)
• Kun: とりで (toride)、むら (mura)

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 061210

Korean

Hanja

塢 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

塢: Hán Nôm readings: ổ, ọ, ủ, ụ

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