呼
Meanings
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- 1.to call
- 2.to cry
- 3.to shout
- 4.to breath out
- 5.to exhale
- 1.variant of 呼[hū]
- 2.to shout
- 3.to call out
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Wiktionary
- 1.to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
- 2.to shout; to yell
- 3.to call (someone); to address
- 4.howling
- 5.medial; in Middle Chinese: being open-mouthed (開口／开口) or closed-mouthed (合口), also called 開合／开合); or, for modern Chinese: one of four medials (四呼)
- 6.a surname: Hu
- 7.Expression of anger.
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qʰaː): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乎 (OC *ɢaː) – to exhale, call, or shout from the mouth. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔaːw (“to shout, cry out”). Cognate with Burmese အော် (au, “to shout, berate”), as well as with the following Sinitic words (STEDT): * 嚆 (“to make noise”) * 嚎 (“to howl, bawl”) * 呴 (OC *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos, “to breathe on, yawn, roar”) * 呵 (OC *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls, “to shout, cry out”)
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
呼氣。
Exhale.
我們提出了請求支持的呼籲。
We made an appeal for support.
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Derived terms
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