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號

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Mandarin · pinyin háo#

(bound form) to wail; to howl

Mandarin · pinyin hào#

(literary) to call out; to command
(bound form) bugle; trumpet
(bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號 qǐ chuáng hào)
(bound form) mark; sign
to mark; to label; to assign a number
(bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號 guó hào, 年號 nián hào, 遼寧號 Liáo níng Hào)
(after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間 èr sān qī hào fáng jiān "Room 237")
day of the month (e.g. 七號 qī hào "the 7th")
(bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池 wǔ hào diàn chí)
(TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈 hào mài)
classifier for numbered people or items

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号: hào · mark, sign; symbol; number

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hou4 · hou6

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character

name; alias
(specifically) art name
to order; to command
shop; store
mark; symbol
number
(informal) day of the month.
the name of a boat
(music) brass instrument
(typography) hao
(Internet) account
(Central Plains and Lanyin Mandarin, Sichuanese) to correct; to mark (school work)

character

to shout; to bawl; to cry loudly
(of animal) to roar
to cry (to shed a tear) (loudly)
(of wind) to howl; to roar

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