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午 (Kangxi radical 24,十+2, 4 strokes,cangjie input人十 (OJ) or難人十 (XOJ),four-corner8040₀,composition⿱𠂉十 or⿰丿干)

• 仵, 吘, 㞰, 忤, 汻, 迕, 旿, 㬳, 杵, 玝, 許, 许, 啎, 缶, 年, 㷏

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 156, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2703
• Dae Jaweon: page 354, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 406, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5348

Historical forms of the character午
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – apestle (now written杵). Unrelated to干. See the central component of舂 and秦 in their original version.

Norman (1985) proposed connection with Austroasiatic;Ferlus (2013) noted a "[g]ood correspondence" betweenProto-Vietic*m-ŋəːʔ (whenceVietnamesengựa) and Old Chinese reconstructions like *m-qʰˁaʔ (Baxter-Sagart) and *ᵀs.ŋaʔ (Ferlus). Also compareProto-Hlai*hŋaːʔ(“horse”),Proto-Kra*ŋja C(“horse”).

Alternatively,Smith (2011) proposed午 (OC*ŋaːʔ)'s cognacy with啎 (OC*ŋaːs) "to meet head on" and御 (OC*ŋas) "to meet in (battle)" and suggested that "the moon at its full phase opposes the sun directly in the sky, meaning *ŋaaʔ 午 is probably to be glossed, given *-ʔ , ‘facing stage’".Schuessler (2007) regarded午 (OC ŋâh) "to go against" as a mere graphic variant of啎 and thus deemed the sense "to go against" distinct from the "earthly branch" sense.

午

1. theseventh of thetwelveearthly branches
   1. (archaic, astrology) theseventhyear of theJovianorbitalcycle
   2. (archaic) thefifthmonth of theChinese calendar
   3. (historical) thedoublehour from11am to1pm

      午時／午时  ― wǔshí  ―  11:00 to 13:00

      1. (precisely)noon

         午睡  ― wǔshuì  ―  siesta (literally, “noon nap”)

      2. themiddle of aperiod of time

         午夜  ― wǔyè  ― midnight

   4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thesouth

      子午線／子午线  ― zǐwǔxiàn  ―  line of longitude (literally, “north-south line”)

   5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) thehorse (according to theChinese zodiac)

      典午  ― diǎnwǔ  ―  Grand Marshal(an important official post during theHan dynasty); major(a low-level officer who handled military affairs within acommandery); literally,“supervisor ofhorses”

2. (alt. form迕) in acriss-cross manner; tocross each other
3. asurname
4. archaic form of忤(wǔ)

• (Chinese earthly branches)地支(dìzhī); 子(zǐ),丑(chǒu),寅(yín),卯(mǎo),辰(chén),巳(sì),午,未(wèi),申(shēn),酉(yǒu),戌(xū),亥(hài)^{(Category:zh:Chinese earthly branches)}

• (as an earthly branch):地支 (dìzhī)
• (as precisely noon):小時／小时 (xiǎoshí),時候／时候 (shíhou)

• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “午”, in漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House,→ISBN
• “午”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00431
• 周存[Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “午”, in长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou:世界图书出版有限公司[World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.],→ISBN, page722.

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. noon

• Go-on:ご(go,Jōyō)
• Kan-on:ご(go,Jōyō)
• Kun:うま(uma,午)

JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

午

Wikipedia^ja

From馬(uma,“horse”).

• (Tokyo)うま[ùmáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ma̠]

• Homophone:馬

午(うま)• (Uma) 

1. theHorse, the seventh of the twelveEarthly Branches

   Hypernyms:十二支,地支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

FromMiddle Chinese午(ngu^X).

• (Tokyo)ご[góꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɡo̞]

午(ご)• (go) 

1. noon

• 午(ご)前(ぜん)(gozen,“a.m.”)
• 午(ご)後(ご)(gogo,“p.m.”)

午(ご)• (Go) 

1. theHorse, the seventh of the twelveEarthly Branches

   Hypernyms:十二支,地支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

• “^△午”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2025

FromMiddle Chinese午 (MC nguX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[o̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul:[오(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

午

午 (eumhun낮오(nat o))

1. hanja form^? of오(“noon;daytime”)[affix]

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[3]

午:Hán Việt readings:ngọ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]},ngũ^[5][6][8]
午:Nôm readings:ngỏ^{[1][2][4][6][7][8]},ngõ^{[1][2][3][4][8]},ngủ^[1][2],ngó^[1],ngộ^[2],ngỡ^[2],ngọ^[3]

1. chữ Hán form ofNgọ(“seventh of the twelveearthly branches”)

   Hypernyms:地支,十二支

   Coordinate terms:子,丑,寅,卯,辰,巳,午,未,申,酉,戌,亥

2. chữ Nôm form ofngó(“to take apeek; to have aquicklook”)
3. chữ Nôm form ofngỏ(“toopen”)
4. chữ Nôm form ofngõ(“lane;alley;bystreet”)
5. chữ Nôm form ofngủ(“tosleep”)

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