吁 · xū
interjection 'Alas!'; to sigh
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
interjection 'Alas!'; to sigh
- Mandarin
- xū
- Cantonese
- heoi1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 吁 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
Go deeperJisho ↗Wiktionary ↗
Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 우
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5401
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 3
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 吁
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 于 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 于聲
Line 908 · ⿰口于 · 于聲 · source reference 0221340
# 重複
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
籲
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- xju · 況于 反切 · #254
- Middle Chinese
- hjuH · 王遇 反切 · #2331
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2176 · xju = 遇合三平虞曉 · hjuH = 遇合三去虞云
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- xū
- kCantonese
- heoi1
- kDefinition
- interjection 'Alas!'; to sigh
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 30.3
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+5401 U+7C72
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+5401
- kTGH
- 2013:420
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- xū,yù 10575.070
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- xū 1299.100 · yū 1406.060 · yù 1415.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- xū 412.070 · yū 445.120 · yù 448.140
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- xū(20) yù(12)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xū粵heoi1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 況于 王遇
- Kangxi positions
- 0174.140
- Guangyun positions
- 074.15 366.09
- GSR references
- 0097t
- Cangjie
- RMD
- Four-corner
- 6104.0