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哭

哭

哭 U+54ED, 哭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54ED
← 哬
[U+54EC] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哮 →
[U+54EE]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

哭 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK), four-corner 66430, composition ⿱吅犬)

  • Shuōwén Jiězì radical №25

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 190, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3658
  • Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 629, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+54ED

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 哭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (獄) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嶽 *ŋroːɡ
鸑 *ŋroːɡ
哭 *ŋ̥ʰoːɡ
獄 *ŋoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋ̥ʰoːɡ) : semantic 吅 + phonetic 犬 ‎(OC *kʰʷeːnʔ, “獄”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 哭
Mandarin Beijing /kʰu⁵⁵/
Harbin /kʰu⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kʰu²¹/
Jinan /kʰu²¹³/
Qingdao /kʰu⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /kʰu²⁴/
Xi'an /kʰu²¹/
Xining /kʰv̩⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kʰu¹³/
Lanzhou /kʰu¹³/
Ürümqi /kʰu²¹³/
Wuhan /kʰu²¹³/
Chengdu /kʰu³¹/
Guiyang /kʰu²¹/
Kunming /kʰu³¹/
Nanjing /kʰuʔ⁵/
Hefei /kʰuəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /kʰuəʔ²/
Pingyao /kʰuʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /kʰuəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /kʰoʔ⁵/
Suzhou /kʰoʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /kʰoʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /kʰu²¹³/
Hui Shexian /kʰuʔ²¹/
Tunxi /kʰu⁵/
Xiang Changsha /kʰu²⁴/
Xiangtan /kʰu²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /kʰuʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kʰuk̚¹/
Taoyuan /kʰuk̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hok̚⁵/
Nanning /huk̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /huk̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰɔk/
/kʰau¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰouʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰu²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰau²¹³/ 訓讀
Haikou (Min Nan) /xau³⁵/ 訓號
Rime
Character 哭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 屋 (3)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 空谷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰəwk̚/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuk̚/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ku
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 哭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khuwk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤok/
English weep

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 哭
Reading # 1/1
No. 16031
Phonetic
component		 獄
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 哭
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ̥ʰoːɡ/
Notes 說文獄省聲

Definitions

哭

  1. to weep, to cry, to wail

Japanese

Kanji

哭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

哭 • ‎(gok) (hangeul 곡, McCune-Reischauer kok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哭 (khốc, khóc)

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