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堀

堀

Translingual

Han character

堀 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 土尸山山 (GSUU), four-corner 47172, composition ⿰土屈)

  1. cave, hole

References

  • KangXi: page 231, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5205
  • Dae Jaweon: page 468, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 459, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+5800

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 堀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 堀
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (出) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
聉 *r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅 *kljods
祟 *sqʰluds
出 *kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁 *ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪 *qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀 *ŋr'uːd
袦 *ŋr'oːd
咄 *ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮 *sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙 *kljod
炪 *kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘 *ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯 *l'uːd
啒 *kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈 *kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟 *kʰluːd
泏 *kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀 *kʰluːd, *ɡlud
朏 *kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
窋 *ʔl'ud
絀 *ʔl'ud
黜 *l̥ʰud
屈 *klud, *kʰlud
趉 *klud
鶌 *klud
詘 *kʰlud
倔 *ɡlud
崛 *ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 堀 堀
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 物 (60) 沒 (56)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 衢物切 苦骨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨut̚/ /kʰuət̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiut̚/ /kʰuot̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuət̚/ /kʰuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gut̚/ /kʰwət̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiuət̚/ /kʰuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭuət̚/ /kʰuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯uət̚/ /kʰuət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jú ku
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 堀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwot ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤut/
English hole

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 堀 堀
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1567 1587
Phonetic
component		 出 出
Rime
group		 物 物
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 窟 倔
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰluːd/ /*ɡlud/

Definitions

堀

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Compounds

  • 堀堁

References

Japanese

Kanji

堀

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
堀
ほり
Grade: S
kun'yomi

The 連用形 ‎(ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 掘る ‎(horu, “to dig”).

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

堀 ‎(hiragana ほり, romaji hori)

  1. ditch, canal
  2. moat

Derived terms

Proper noun

堀 ‎(hiragana ほり, romaji Hori)

  1. A surname​.

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

堀 • ‎(gul) (hangeul 굴, revised gul, McCune-Reischauer kul)

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