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U+5108, 儈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5108

[U+5107]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5109]
See also:

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人人一日 (OOMA), four-corner 28266, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 119, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1189
  • Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 226, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5108

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰruːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
*koːbs, *koːd
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːd
*koːbs, *koːd
*koːbs, *kroːbs
*ɡoːbs
*qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs
*qoːbs
*qoːbs, *qoːd
*qoːbs
*kʰroːbs
*kʰroːbs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (26)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwajH/
Li
Rong
/kuɑiH/
Wang
Li
/kuɑiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guì
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5494
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːbs/

Definitions

  1. go-between, broker, proxy

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(goe) (hangeul , revised goe, McCune-Reischauer koe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cúi)

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