吳

吳 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口女弓大 (RVNK), four-corner 2680₁, composition ⿺⿱𠃑大口)

• 俁 娛 悞 虞 麌 𡷤 𢫸 𣑀 𤉇 𤝲 𬗙 𮖅 𩶭 𪕜 𣮇 𩃉 𡔣

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 179, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3365
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 595, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5433

Historical forms of the character 吳
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 夨 (“man with tilted head”) – to speak loudly.

"to shout"

Perhaps related to Tibetan ངར་སྐད (ngar skad, “roar; shout”), Tibetan ང་རོ (nga ro, “roar; yell; shout”) (Schuessler, 2007).

吳

1. ^† to speak loudly; to shout

   • 不吳不敖，胡考之休。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不吴不敖，胡考之休。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bù wú bù áo, hú kǎo zhī xiū. [Pinyin]

     There is no noise, no insolence: An auspice, [all this], of great longevity.

2. ^† big
3. (historical) (～國) Wu, a state during the Western Zhou dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period
4. (historical) (～國) Eastern Wu, one of the Three Kingdoms
5. (historical) (～國) Wu, one of the Ten Kingdoms in eastern China which was in existence from 907 to 937
6. the region comprising southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang
7. Wu; the Chinese dialects of that territory, including Suzhounese and Shanghainese

   See also: 吳語

8. (～市) Kure (a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan)
9. a surname

   吳三桂／吴三桂  ―  Wú Sānguì  ―  Wu Sangui (Chinese military leader)

   吳作棟 [Hokkien, trad.]
   吴作栋 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Gô͘ Chok-tòng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Goh Chok Tong (Singapore's second Prime Minister; currently Emeritus Senior Minister)

• → English: Wu, Ng, Goh, Ngo
• → Tagalog: Go, Wu

吳

1. Alternative form of 虞 (yú)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 呉)

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

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

This character lacks JIS support. The character 呉 (U+5449) is used instead in Japanese.

吳 (eumhun 성씨 오 (seongssi o)) Surname:Oh

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吳 (eumhun 큰소리칠 화 (keunsorichil hwa))Making a loud noise or Make a loud noise.

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吳: Hán Nôm readings: ngô

1. chữ Hán form of Ngô (“a surname”).

   吳寶珠 ― Ngô Bảo Châu