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呼

Mandarin · pinyin hū

to call
to cry
to shout
to breath out
to exhale

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呼: hū · breathe sigh, exhale; call, shout

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to breathe out; to exhale; to sigh
to shout; to yell
to call (someone); to address
(onomatopoeia, of wind) howling
(Chinese phonetics) 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)
a surname: Hu

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 詨 /𰵦 (xiào, “to shout”)

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 吁 (“sigh (expression of fatigue)”)

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(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Expression of anger.

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(historical dictionaries only) alternative form of 罅 (xià, “crack; rift”)

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