号

See also: 號 and 묵

号 U+53F7, 号 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53F7 ← 叶 [U+53F6] CJK Unified Ideographs 司 → [U+53F8]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	号
Simplified	号
Traditional	號

Han character

号 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+2, 5 strokes, Cangjie input 口一女尸 (RMVS), composition ⿱口丂)

Derived characters

• 呺, 枵, 號, 䪽, 飸, 鴞 (鸮), 㞻

Additional derived characters

• 𬽱, 𲝊, 𢪶, 𤝐, 𭴒, 𭷐, 𦚊, 𰢬, 𭽑, 𪾥, 𥍣, 𳀱, 𰫟, 𲻫, 𧦢, 𮡓, 𨱭, 𱙾, 𠸮, 𮧃, 𲹇, 𩨴, 𱆩
• 𲻫, 𠒠, 𩖸, 𠳯, 𨚙, 𣪆, 𣭖, 𫪕, 𠵗, 𰇱, 𭈹, 𭈶, 𱓪, 𱿒, 𡀒, 𧇼, 𫇯, 𰖦
• 𤩩, 𰢖, 𨫴, 𡩸, 𰊽, 𢣉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 174, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3256
• Dae Jaweon: page 385, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 570, character 1
• Unihan data for U+53F7

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
饕	*l̥ʰaːw
號	*ɦlaːw, *ɦlaːws
号	*ɦlaːws
枵	*hraw
呺	*hraw
鴞	*ɦraw

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 口 (“mouth”) + 丂 (“exhaled air; a tiger's cry”). See 號 for more details.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 号 – see 號 (“name; alias; art name; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 號).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03612-001

Japanese

Shinjitai	号
Kyūjitai	號

Kanji

号

(Third grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 號)

Readings

• Go-on: ごう (gō, Jōyō)^{←がう (gau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: さけぶ (sakebu, 号ぶ)、よびな (yobina, 号)

Compounds

• 哀号(あいごう) (aigō)
• 青信号(あおしんごう) (aoshingō)
• 赤信号(あかしんごう) (akashingō)
• 暗号(あんごう) (angō)
• 加号(かごう) (kagō)
• 雅号(がごう) (gagō)
• 記号(きごう) (kigō)
• 黄信号(きしんごう) (kishingō)
• 減号(げんごう) (gengō)
• 口号(こうごう) (kōgō)
• 国号(こくごう) (kokugō)
• 号外(ごうがい) (gōgai)
• 号泣(ごうきゅう) (gōkyū)
• 号哭(ごうこく) (gōkoku)
• 号室(ごうしつ) (gōshitsu)
• 号数(ごうすう) (gōsū)
• 号令(ごうれい) (gōrei)
• 称号(しょうごう) (shōgō)
• 商号(しょうごう) (shōgō)
• 信号(しんごう) (shingō)
• 除号(じょごう) (jogō)
• 乗号(じょうごう) (jōgō)
• 通号(つうごう) (tsūgō)
• 正号(せいごう) (seigō)
• 等号(とうごう) (tōgō)
• 怒号(どごう) (dogō)
• 年号(ねんごう) (nengō)
• 番号(ばんごう) (bangō)
• 廟号(びょうごう) (byōgō)
• 符号(ふごう) (fugō)
• 負号(ふごう) (fugō)
• 法号(ほうごう) (hōgō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
号
ごう Grade: 3
goon

Alternative spelling
號 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 号 (MC hawH)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞ː]
• (Tokyo) ごー [góꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])

Noun

号(ごう) • (gō) ^{←がう (gau)?}

1. number
2. art name

Suffix

号(ごう) • (-gō) ^{←がう (-gau)?}

1. ordinal marker, often with prefix 第 (used like -st, -nd, -rd, -th in English)

   （第(だい)）六(ろく)号(ごう)

   (dai)-roku gō

   (The) 6th

2. used after the names of vehicles, such as ships or airplanes

   タイタニック号(ごう)

   Taitanikku-gō

   RMS Titanic

   スピリット・オブ・セントルイス号(ごう)

   Supiritto obu Sentoruisu-gō

   Spirit of St. Louis

3. used after the names of animals, such as show dogs, police dogs, and racehorses

   イクイノックス号(ごう)

   Ikuinokkusu-gō

   Equinox

Korean

Hanja

号 (eumhun 이름 호 (ireum ho))

1. alternative form of 號 (“hanja form^? of 호 (“name; number”)”)

References

• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 51. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

号: Hán Việt readings: hiệu

1. Variant of 號, see there for more details.