煦

煦 U+7166, 煦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7166 ← 煥 [U+7165] CJK Unified Ideographs 照 → [U+7167]

Translingual

Han character

煦 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日口火 (ARF) or 難日口火 (XARF), four-corner 6733₂, composition ⿱昫灬)

Derived characters

• 𬞜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 677, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19225
• Dae Jaweon: page 1089, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2220, character 17
• Unihan data for U+7166

Chinese

simp. and trad.		煦
alternative forms		昫 𤋗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xǔ, xù, xiū (xu³, xu⁴, xiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩˇ, ㄒㄩˋ, ㄒㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): heoi² / heoi³ / jyu² / jyu³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): y⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hù / hú / ù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hu⁶ / hu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syǔ
    • Wade–Giles: hsü³
    • Yale: syǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syù
    • Wade–Giles: hsü⁴
    • Yale: syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiuh
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siou
    • Wade–Giles: hsiu¹
    • Yale: syōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiou
    • Palladius: сю (sju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: heoi² / heoi³ / jyu² / jyu³
    • Yale: héui / heui / yú / yu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoey² / hoey³ / jy² / jy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hêu² / hêu³ / yu² / yu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɵy̯³⁵/, /hɵy̯³³/, /jyː³⁵/, /jyː³³/

Note: heoi3, jyu2, jyu3 - alternative pronunciations.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: y⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hù
    • Tâi-lô: hù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hu²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hú
    • Tâi-lô: hú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huo
    • IPA (Taipei): /hu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hu⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ù
    • Tâi-lô: ù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /u⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /u¹¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /u²¹/

Note:

• hù/hú - literary;
• ù - colloquial.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: hu⁶ / hu³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hŭ / hù
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu³⁵/, /hu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjuX, xjuH

Rime
Character	煦	煦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	況羽切	香句切
Baxter	xjuX	xjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨoX/	/hɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/hioX/	/hioH/
Shao Rongfen	/xioX/	/xioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/huə̆X/	/huə̆H/
Li Rong	/xioX/	/xioH/
Wang Li	/xĭuX/	/xĭuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯uX/	/xi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xǔ	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi2	heoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoʔ/, /*qʰos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	煦	煦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7125	7126
Phonetic component	句	句
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	詡	昫
Old Chinese	/*qʰoʔ/	/*qʰos/

Definitions

煦

1. warm
2. kind; gentle; gracious; genial

Compounds

• 和煦 (héxù)
• 拂煦
• 涵煦
• 溫煦 / 温煦 (wēnxù)
• 煦仁孑義 / 煦仁孑义
• 煦伏
• 煦嫗 / 煦妪
• 煦沫
• 煦煦

References

• “煦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “煦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 269.

Japanese

Kanji

煦

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. warm

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: あたためる (atatameru)

Korean

Hanja

煦 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

1. kind, gentle
2. gracious
3. genial

Vietnamese

Han character

煦: Hán Việt readings: hú

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