嚆
嚆 — hyo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 울릴 효
- Romanization
- hyo
- English
- give forth sound, make noise
- Mandarin
- hāo
- Japanese on'yomi
- コウ, キョウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- さけ.ぶ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 口 (30, 14 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5686
Parts that make up 嚆
How 嚆 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 嚆 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 口, 蒿.
Korean example words with 嚆
- 효시嚆矢 Korean gloss: 예전에, 전쟁 때에 쓰던 화살의 하나. 끝에 속이 빈 깍지를 달아 붙인 것으로, 쏘면 공기에 부딪혀 소리가 난다.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 嚆
- 嚆矢こうし whistling arrow used to signal the start of battle; start (e.g. of a movement); beginning
Other hanja read “효”
Other hanja with radical 口
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