忤

忤 U+5FE4, 忤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FE4 ← 忣 [U+5FE3] CJK Unified Ideographs 忥 → [U+5FE5]

Translingual

Han character

忤 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心人十 (POJ), four-corner 9804₀, composition ⿰忄午)

1. insubordinate, stubborn
2. wrong

Derived characters

• 𫼎

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 377, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10358
• Dae Jaweon: page 705, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2276, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5FE4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		忤
alternative forms		啎 𠵦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋaːs): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 午 (OC *ŋaːʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǔ (wu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng⁵ / ng⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔ
    • Wade–Giles: wu³
    • Yale: wǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuu
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ng⁵ / ng⁶
    • Yale: ńgh / ngh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ng⁵ / ng⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ng⁵ / ng⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋ̍¹³/, /ŋ̍²²/

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• Middle Chinese: nguH

Rime
Character	忤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五故切
Baxter	nguH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɔH/
Li Rong	/ŋoH/
Wang Li	/ŋuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ng6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忤
Reading #	1/1
No.	13172
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	誤
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːs/

Definitions

忤

1. to violate; to go against; to disobey

Compounds

• 不以為忤 / 不以为忤
• 乖忤
• 忤奴
• 忤慢
• 忤物
• 忤視 / 忤视
• 忤耳
• 忤逆 (wǔnì)
• 忤逆不孝 (wǔnì bùxiào)
• 違忤 / 违忤 (wéiwǔ)

References

• “忤”, 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

忤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ご (go)
• Kun: さからう (sakarau)、もとる (motoru, 忤る)

Korean

Hanja

忤 • (o) (hangeul 오, revised o, McCune–Reischauer o, Yale o)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忤: Hán Nôm readings: ngỗ

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