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刮

刮

刮 U+522E, 刮
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-522E
← 刭
[U+522D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 刯 →
[U+522F]
See also: 颳

Translingual

Han character

刮 (radical 18 刀+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹口中弓 (HRLN), four-corner 22600, composition ⿰舌刂)

References

  • KangXi: page 138, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1943
  • Dae Jaweon: page 314, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 335, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+522E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咶 *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話 *ɡroːds
刮 *kroːd
鴰 *kroːd, *koːd
趏 *kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌 *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡 *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢 *ɡroːd, *koːd
括 *koːd
活 *koːd, *ɡoːd
适 *koːd, *kʰoːd
栝 *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸 *koːd, *ɡoːd
髺 *koːd
聒 *koːd
銛 *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀 *koːd
懖 *koːd
筈 *koːd, *kʰoːd
萿 *koːd
蛞 *kʰoːd
闊 *kʰoːd
秳 *ɡoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kroːd) : phonetic 𠯑 + semantic 刀 ‎(“knife”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 刮

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 刮
Mandarin Beijing /kua⁵⁵/
Harbin /kua²¹³/ ～風
/kʰua⁴⁴/ ～鬍子
Tianjin /kuɑ¹³/
Jinan /kua²¹³/
/kʰua²¹³/ ～臉
Qingdao /kua⁵⁵/ ～風
/kʰua⁵⁵/ ～臉
Zhengzhou /kua²⁴/
Xi'an /kua²¹/
Xining /kua⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kua¹³/
Lanzhou /kua¹³/
Ürümqi /kua²¹³/
Wuhan /kua²¹³/
Chengdu /kua³¹/
Guiyang /kua²¹/
Kunming /kua̠³¹/
Nanjing /kuɑʔ⁵/
Hefei /kuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kuaʔ²/
Pingyao /kuʌʔ¹³/ ～風
/kuɑ¹³/ ～鬍子
Hohhot /kuaʔ⁴³/ ～風
/kua³¹/ 耳～子
Wu Shanghai /kuaʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kuaʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kuɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ko²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kuaʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kuːə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kua²⁴/
Xiangtan /kuɒ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kuaʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kuat̚¹/
Taoyuan /kuɑt̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwat̚³/
Nanning /kʷat̚³³/
Hong Kong /kwat̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kuat̚³²/
/kuaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kua²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kuaʔ²/
/kueʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kuak̚⁵/
Rime
Character 刮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 黠 (72)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古䫄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠuat̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚat̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨt̚/
Li
Rong		 /kuat̚/
Wang
Li		 /kwat̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwăt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gua
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 刮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwæt ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʷˤ]r[a]t/
English scrape (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 刮
Reading # 1/1
No. 7559
Phonetic
component		 桰
Rime
group		 月
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 刮
Old
Chinese		 /*kroːd/

Definitions

刮

  1. to shave; to pare off; to scrape
  2. Alternative form of 颳／刮 (“to blow”).
  3. to wipe; to wipe clean
  4. to plunder; to extort
  5. (colloquial) to reprimand; to scold

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 刮 – see 颳.
(This character, 刮, is the simplified form of 颳.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

刮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: かつ (katsu), けち (kechi)
  • Kun: けずる (kezuru), きさぐ (kisagu), きさげ (kisage), こそぐ (kosogu), こそげる (kosogeru)

Korean

Hanja

刮 • ‎(gwal) (hangeul 괄, revised gwal, McCune-Reischauer kwal)

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