呉

අමතර අවධානයට: 吳, 県, සහ 吴

呉 U+5449, 呉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5449 ← 呈 [U+5448] CJK Unified Ideographs 告 → [U+544A]

සර්ව භාෂාමය

Traditional	吳
Shinjitai	呉
Simplified	吴

Glyph origin

Variant of 吳.

The modern Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

හන් අනුලක්ෂණය

呉 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓金 (RVNC), composition ⿳⿺𠃑口一八(GJ) or ⿱⿳口𠃑一八(T))

ව්‍යුත්පන්න අනුලක්ෂණ

• 娯
• 誤 虞 (Japanese fonts contain 呉)

මූලාශ්‍ර

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5449

චීන

For pronunciation and definitions of 呉 – see 吳. (This character is a variant form of 吳).

ජපන්

Shinjitai	呉
Kyūjitai	吳

කන්ජි

呉

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 吳)

1. China
2. to give something, to do something for someone

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ご (go, Jōyō)
• Kun: くれ (kure, 呉); くれる (kureru, 呉れる)
• Nanori: くに (kuni); くれ (kure)

Compounds

• 呉(ご)牛(ぎゅう) (gogyū): water buffalo

නිරුක්තිය 1

Kanji in this term
呉
ご Grade: S
kan'on

වෛකල්පික අක්ෂර වින්‍යාසය
吳 (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 吳 (MC ŋuo), the name of a state. Compare modern මැන්ඩරීන් 吳／吴 (Wú).

උච්චාරණය

• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞]

සංඥා නාම පදය

呉(ご) (Go) 

1. Japanese reading of the Chinese surname Wu.
2. the ancient State of Wu
3. (chiefly compounds) China, Chinese

ව්‍යුත්පන්න යෙදුම්

• 呉(ご)音(おん) (gōn): a kind of kanji reading, indicating an older borrowing from Chinese

නිරුක්තිය 2

Kanji in this term
呉
くれ Grade: S
kun'yomi

වෛකල්පික අක්ෂර වින්‍යාසය
吳 (kyūjitai)

Likely from the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 暮れる (kureru, “to set (said of the sun or moon), to get dark”), from the way that China lies to the west of Japan, in the direction of the setting sun. This may be related to the famous letter from Prince Shōtoku to Emperor Yang of Sui sent via the Japanese mission to Sui China in 607, wherein we see the first mention of Japan as the Land of the Rising Sun, and a description of China as Land of the Setting Sun:

• 日出處天子致書日沒處天子無恙云云／日出处天子致书日没处天子无恙云云

日出處／日出处 (literally “sun + emerge + place”) here refers to Japan, while 日沒處／日没处 (literally “sun + sink + place”) refers to China.

In textual Japanese, the term Kure originally referred more specifically to the ancient State of Wu (roughly analogous with the modern Jiangnan region), and later shifted to refer to China as a whole.

First cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720.

උච්චාරණය

• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɾe̞]

සංඥා නාම පදය

呉(くれ) (Kure) 

1. (archaic) China, Chinese

   More commonly found in compounds in modern Japanese.

2. Kure (a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)

ව්‍යුත්පන්න යෙදුම්

ව්‍යුත්පන්න යෙදුම්

• 呉(くれ)楽(がく) (kuregaku): gigaku, an extinct form of masked drama performance originally imported from China
• 呉(くれ)竹(たけ) (kuretake): alternate name for 淡(は)竹(ちく) (hachiku): henon bamboo, a form of Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo)
• 紅(くれない) (kurenai): crimson