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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koː
*koː
*koː
*koː, *kʰoː
*koː
*koː, *koːs
*koːs
*koːs
*koːs
*koːs
*koːs, *koːs
*koːs
*koːs
*kroːŋʔ
*kroːŋʔ
*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
*kroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koː) : semantic  (water) + phonetic  (OC *koː, *koːs) – a ditch or drain for water.

Han character

(radical 85 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿廿月 (ETTB), four-corner 35147, composition)

  1. ditch, drain, narrow waterway
  2. 1032

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 639, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17944
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1692, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6E9D

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Chinese

trad.
simp.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kou⁵⁵/
Harbin /kou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kou²¹/
Jinan /kou²¹³/
Qingdao /kou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kou²⁴/
Xi'an /kou²¹/
Xining /kɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kou³¹/
Ürümqi /kɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kəu⁵⁵/
Kunming /kəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kəɯ³¹/
Hefei /kɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kəu¹¹/
Pingyao /kəu¹³/
Hohhot /kəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /kɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kø³³/
Wenzhou /kau³³/
Hui Shexian /kiu³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kəu³³/
Xiangtan /kəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /kiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /keu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /keu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰɐu⁵³/
Nanning /kɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐu⁵⁵/
/kʰɐu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kɔ⁵⁵/
/kau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kau⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ke⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kɔu²³/
/kau²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/kəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/kəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəw/
Li
Rong
/ku/
Wang
Li
/kəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤ(r)o/
English irrigation canal

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4185
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koː/

Definitions

  1. ditch; drain; narrow waterway
  2. (Cantonese) to mix
    / [Cantonese]   kau1 maai4 [Jyutping]   to mix together

Etymology 2



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /kou⁵⁵/
Harbin /kou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kou²¹/
Jinan /kou²¹³/
Qingdao /kou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kou²⁴/
Xi'an /kou²¹/
Xining /kɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kou³¹/
Ürümqi /kɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kəu⁵⁵/
Kunming /kəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kəɯ³¹/
Hefei /kɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kəu¹¹/
Pingyao /kəu¹³/
Hohhot /kəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /kɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /kɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kø³³/
Wenzhou /kau³³/
Hui Shexian /kiu³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kəu³³/
Xiangtan /kəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /kiɛu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /keu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /keu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰɐu⁵³/
Nanning /kɐu⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐu⁵⁵/
/kʰɐu⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kɔ⁵⁵/
/kau⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kau⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ke⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kɔu²³/
/kau²³/

Definitions

  1. Only used in 溝瞀沟瞀.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Noun

(hiragana みぞ, romaji mizo)

  1. a ditch
  2. a groove
  3. a gulf; a gap

Number

(hiragana こう, romaji )

  1. A number of 1032 in modern Japanese since 17th century.

Korean

Hanja

(gu) (hangeul , revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(câu)

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