吳

吳 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓大 (RVNK), four-corner 2680₁, composition ⿺⿱𠃑大口)

• KangXi: page 179, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5433

Historical forms of the character 吳
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 夨 (“man with tilted head”) – to speak loudly.

Perhaps related to Tibetan ངར་སྐད (ngar skad, “roar; shout”), Tibetan ང་རོ (nga ro, “roar; yell; shout”) (Schuessler, 2007).

吳

1. ^† to speak loudly; to shout

   • 不吳不敖，胡考之休。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不吴不敖，胡考之休。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, circa 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bù wú bù áo, hú kǎo zhī xiū. [Pinyin]

     There is no noise, no insolence: An auspice, [all this], of great longevity.

2. ^† big
3. (historical) (～國) one of the Warring States
4. (historical) (～國) Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms
5. the territory those states held, around the Yangtze delta
6. Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese

   ⇒ 吳語

7. A surname​.

   吳作棟 / 吴作栋 [Min Nan]  ―  Gô͘ Chok-tòng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister; currently Emeritus Senior Minister)

8. (～港) a harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

• → English: Wu, Ng, Goh
• → Tagalog: Go, Wu

吳

1. Alternative form of 虞 (yú).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): ご (go)
• Kun: くれ (kure), くれる (kureru)

1) Pronunciations of Kanji from before the 7th / 8th centuries. Possibly from the Korean peninsula or southern China. Often used in Buddhist texts.

This character lacks JIS support. The character 呉 (U+5449) is used instead in Japanese.

吳 • (o, ho) (hangeul 오, 호, McCune–Reischauer o, ho)

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吳 (ngô, ngo)

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