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吾 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一一口 (MMR), four-corner 10601, composition ⿱五口)

• 俉, 唔, 娪, 峿, 悟, 捂, 晤, 梧, 浯, 焐, 牾, 㹳, 珸, 䎸, 䏸, 語(语), 鋙(铻), 䮏, 鯃, 齬(龉/𪘚), 啎, 逜, 鼯, 敔, 郚, 痦, 衙, 䦜, 圄, 䓊, 㐚
• 𠗐, 𪣔, 𪩳, 𢓲, 𭭢, 𤕻, 𥆐, 𥏒, 𥒾, 𥟊, 𦀡, 𧋋, 𮗰, 𬤿, 𧳎, 𮠬, 𫕁, 𩩑, 𫥩, 𦥉, 𩳌, 𢆖, 𢻊, 𣣄, 𤭑, 𩒾, 𪁙, 𪕡, 𠵦, 𫪸, 𫬮, 𢈪, 𡨂, 𥭠, 𣬕, 𬰜, 𠵥
• Kangxi Dictionary: page 180, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3379
• Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 585, character 13
• Unihan data for U+543E

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ------------------- | | 吾 | *ŋraː, *ŋaː | | 衙 | *ŋraː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ | | 鼯 | *ŋaː | | 浯 | *ŋaː | | 珸 | *ŋaː | | 郚 | *ŋaː | | 齬 | *ŋaː, *ŋa, *ŋaʔ | | 鯃 | *ŋaː | | 娪 | *ŋaː | | 梧 | *ŋaː | | 峿 | *ŋaː | | 五 | *ŋaːʔ | | 伍 | *ŋaːʔ | | 寤 | *ŋaːs | | 啎 | *ŋaːs | | 晤 | *ŋaːs | | 悟 | *ŋaːs | | 逜 | *ŋaːs | | 窹 | *ŋaːs | | 捂 | *ŋaːs | | 鋙 | *ŋa, *ŋaʔ | | 語 | *ŋaʔ, *ŋas | | 圄 | *ŋaʔ | | 敔 | *ŋaʔ |

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː): phonetic 五 (OC *ŋaːʔ) + semantic 口 (“mouth”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka (“I”). Cognate with Burmese ငါ (nga, “I”), 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”), Hakka 𠊎 (ngài, “I”).

• Mandarin
  (Standard)
  (Pinyin): wú, wǔ (wu2, wu3)
  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ, ㄨˇ
  (Nanjing, Nanjing Pinyin): wǔ / ńg
• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng4
• Hakka
  (Sixian, PFS): ǹg
  (Hailu, HRS): ng
  (Meixian, Guangdong): n2
• Eastern Min (BUC): ngù
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gou2
• Southern Min
  (Hokkien, POJ): ngô͘ / gô͘
  (Teochew, Peng'im): u5
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6ngu; 6ng

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    * Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    * Wade–Giles: wu2
    * Yale: wú
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    * Palladius: у (u)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u³⁵/
  • (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/

Note:

• wú - standard;

• wǔ - common variant.

  • (Nanjing)
    * Nanjing Pinyin: wǔ / ńg
    * Nanjing Pinyin (numbered): wu3 / ng2
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u¹¹/, /ŋ̍²⁴/

Note:

• wǔ - literary;

• ńg - colloquial, only used in 吾媽／吾妈 (ńgmà), 吾爹 (ńgdiè), and 吾奶 (ńglài).

• Cantonese

  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: ng4
    * Yale: ǹgh
    * Cantonese Pinyin: ng4
    * Guangdong Romanization: ng4
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍²¹/

• Hakka

  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    * Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ǹg
    * Hakka Romanization System: ngˇ
    * Hagfa Pinyim: ng2
    * Sinological IPA: /ŋ̍¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    * Hakka Romanization System: ng
    * Sinological IPA: /ŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    * Guangdong: n2
    * Sinological IPA: /n̩¹¹/

• Eastern Min

  • (Fuzhou)
    * Bàng-uâ-cê: ngù
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋu⁵³/

• Puxian Min

  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    * Pouseng Ping'ing: gou2
    * Sinological IPA (key): /kɔu¹³/

• Southern Min

  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngô͘
    * Tâi-lô: ngôo
    * Phofsit Daibuun: ngoo
    * IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋɔ̃²³/
    * IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /ŋɔ̃²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gô͘
    * Tâi-lô: gôo
    * Phofsit Daibuun: goo
    * IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡɔ¹³/
    * IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡɔ²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    * Peng'im: u5
    * Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: û
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u⁵⁵/

• Wu

  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    * Wugniu: 6ngu; 6ng
    * MiniDict: ngu去; ng去
    * Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 3ngu; 3hhngg
    * Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ŋu²³/, /ŋ̍²³/

• Middle Chinese: ngu

• Old Chinese
  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤa/
  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaː/

吾

1. (literary or dialectal) I
   • 吾嘗終日而思矣，不如須臾之所學也。 [Classical Chinese, _trad._]
     吾尝终日而思矣，不如须臾之所学也。 [Classical Chinese, _simp._]
     From: Xunzi, c. 3rd century BCE
     Wú cháng zhōngrì ér sī yǐ, bùrú xūyú zhī suǒ xué yě. [Pinyin]
     I have once engaged in thinking for the whole day, and it could not compare with a moment of learning.
   • 如有政，雖不吾以，吾其與聞之。 [Classical Chinese, _trad._]
     如有政，虽不吾以，吾其与闻之。 [Classical Chinese, _simp._]
     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
     Rú yǒu zhèng, suī bù wú yǐ, wú qí yù wén zhī. [Pinyin]
     If there had been government business, though I am now not appointed, I should have been consulted about it.
   • 吾觀全地球之社會，未有凌亂舊金山之華人者。 [Classical Chinese, _trad._]
     吾观全地球之社会，未有凌乱旧金山之华人者。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
     From: 1904 February, Liang Qichao, "Travel Notes of the New Continent"
     Wú guān quán dìqiú zhī shèhuì, wèi yǒu língluàn Jiùjīnshān zhī huárén zhě. [Pinyin]
     (please add an English translation of this usage example)
2. (literary) my
   吾皇 [Classical Chinese] ― wú huáng [Pinyin] ― my emperor
   • 老吾老以及人之老，幼吾幼以及人之幼。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and _simp._]
     From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
     Lǎo wú lǎo yǐjí rén zhī lǎo, yòu wú yòu yǐjí rén zhī yòu. [Pinyin]
     Respect my (our) elders as well as the others' elders, take care of my (our) children as well as the others' children.
3. a surname. Wu

Dialectal synonyms of 我 (“I”) [map]

Before the Three Kingdoms period, 吾 ("I") was mostly only used as a subject, a pronoun object of a negated sentence or an interrogative pronoun object (the latter two cases are where the pronoun object is placed before the verb), meaning 吾 seldom occurred as the pronoun object that is placed after a verb.

• 余吾
• 依然故吾
• 先吾著鞭 / 先吾着鞭
• 入吾彀中
• 吾人 (wúrén)
• 吾儕 / 吾侪 (wúchái)
• 吾兄 (wúxiōng)
• 吾子 (wúzǐ)
• 吾徒
• 吾愛 / 吾爱
• 吾當 / 吾当 (wúdāng)
• 吾輩 / 吾辈 (wúbèi)
• 吾道東矣 / 吾道东矣
• 唯吾獨尊 / 唯吾独尊
• 故吾
• 昆吾
• 江左夷吾
• 獨善吾身 / 独善吾身
• 蒼吾讓兄 / 苍吾让兄

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): wú (wu2)
  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ
• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng4

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    * Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    * Wade–Giles: wu2
    * Yale: wú
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    * Palladius: у (u)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: ng4
    * Yale: ǹgh
    * Cantonese Pinyin: ng4
    * Guangdong Romanization: ng4
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍²¹/

• Middle Chinese: ngu

吾

1. Used for onomatopoeia.

• 伊吾 (yīwú)
• 吾伊
• 左支右吾
• 支吾 (zhīwú)
• 支吾其詞 / 支吾其词 (zhīwuqící)
• 支支吾吾 (zhīzhīwúwú)
• 東支西吾 / 东支西吾

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): wú (wu2)
  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ
• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng4

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    * Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    * Wade–Giles: wu2
    * Yale: wú
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    * Palladius: у (u)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: ng4
    * Yale: ǹgh
    * Cantonese Pinyin: ng4
    * Guangdong Romanization: ng4
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍²¹/

吾

1. Used in transcription.

• 伊吾 (Yīwú)
• 伊吾盧 / 伊吾卢 (Yīwúlú)
• 吾合沙魯 / 吾合沙鲁 (Wúhéshālǔ)
• 吾塔木 (Wútǎmù)
• 吾宗肖 (Wúzōngxiào)
• 希吾勒 (Xīwúlè)
• 托木吾斯塘 (Tuōmù Wúsītáng)
• 新疆維吾爾自治區 / 新疆维吾尔自治区 (Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū)
• 維吾爾 / 维吾尔 (Wéiwú'ěr)
• 英吾斯塘 (Yīngwúsītáng)
• 薩勒吾則克 / 萨勒吾则克 (Sàlèwúzékè)

• Hakka
  (Sixian, PFS): ngâ
  (Hailu, HRS): nga
  (Meixian, Guangdong): nga1

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    * Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngâ
    * Hakka Romanization System: ngaˊ
    * Hagfa Pinyim: nga1
    * Sinological IPA: /ŋa²⁴/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    * Hakka Romanization System: nga
    * Sinological IPA: /ŋa⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    * Guangdong: nga1
    * Sinological IPA: /ŋa⁴⁴/

吾

1. (Hakka) my
   吾姆 [Sixian Hakka] ― ngâ mê [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ] ― my mom
   • (Can we date this quote?), “佬妹阿花”, 张少林 (lyrics)‎[1]performed by 张少林:
     雅佬妹喊做阿花 [Malaysian Huiyang Hakka, trad. and _simp._]
     My sister is called Ah Fa

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): wú (wu2)
  (Zhuyin): ㄨˊ
• Cantonese (Jyutping): ng4

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: wú
    * Zhuyin: ㄨˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: wú
    * Wade–Giles: wu2
    * Yale: wú
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wu
    * Palladius: у (u)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /u³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: ng4
    * Yale: ǹgh
    * Cantonese Pinyin: ng4
    * Guangdong Romanization: ng4
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋ̍²¹/

吾

1. (obsolete) a kind of baton

• 執金吾 / 执金吾 (zhí jīnwú)
• 金吾 (jīnwú)
• 金吾不禁
• 金吾猶禁 / 金吾犹禁

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): yá (ya2)
  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄚˊ
• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaa4

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: yá
    * Zhuyin: ㄧㄚˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: yá
    * Wade–Giles: ya2
    * Yale: yá
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ya
    * Palladius: я (ja)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /jä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    * Jyutping: ngaa4
    * Yale: ngàh
    * Cantonese Pinyin: ngaa4
    * Guangdong Romanization: nga4
    * Sinological IPA (key): /ŋaː²¹/

吾

1. Only used in 允吾 (Yányá; Qiānyá). A county established during the Western Han, disestablished during the Northern Wei, and briefly reestablished during the Sui dynasty

• Mandarin
  (Pinyin): yú (yu2)
  (Zhuyin): ㄩˊ

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)+
    * Hanyu Pinyin: yú
    * Zhuyin: ㄩˊ
    * Tongyong Pinyin: yú
    * Wade–Giles: yü2
    * Yale: yú
    * Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yu
    * Palladius: юй (juj)
    * Sinological IPA (key): /y³⁵/

吾

1. Only used in 吾吾.

• “吾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

吾

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. I, me

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ご (go)
• Kun: われ (ware, 吾)、_わが_ (waga, 吾が)、_あ_ (a, 吾)、_あが_ (aga, 吾)

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

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吾 (wa) (kana わ)

1. I, oneself

• Satsugū dialect: おい (oi)

吾: Hán Nôm readings: ngô, ngo

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• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

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