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瓜

瓜

See also: 爪

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

瓜 (radical 97 瓜+0, in Chinese 5 strokes, in Japanese 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹女戈人 (HVIO), four-corner 72230)

  1. Kangxi radical #97, ⽠ ‎(“melon”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 746, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21371
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1154, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2654, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+74DC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瓜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瓜
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (瓜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瓜 *kʷraː
坬 *kʷraːs
窊 *qʷraː, *qʷraːs
畖 *qʷraː
搲 *qʷraːs
攨 *qʷraːs
孤 *kʷaː
苽 *kʷaː
胍 *kʷaː
泒 *kʷaː
呱 *kʷaː
觚 *kʷaː
柧 *kʷaː
罛 *kʷaː
軱 *kʷaː
菰 *kʷaː
箛 *kʷaː
狐 *ɡʷaː
弧 *ɡʷlaː

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 瓜
Mandarin Beijing /kua⁵⁵/
Harbin /kua⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kuɑ²¹/
Jinan /kua²¹³/
Qingdao /kua²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kua²⁴/
Xi'an /kua²¹/
Xining /kua⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kua⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kua³¹/
Ürümqi /kua⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kua⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kua⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kua⁵⁵/
Kunming /kua̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /kuɑ³¹/
Hefei /kua²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kua¹¹/
Pingyao /kuɑ¹³/
Hohhot /kua³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ko⁵³/
/kua⁵³/
Suzhou /ko⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /kuɑ³³/
Wenzhou /kuo³³/
Hui Shexian /kua³¹/
Tunxi /kuːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kua³³/
Xiangtan /kuɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang /kuɑ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kua⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kuɑ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwa⁵⁵/
Nanning /kʷa⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kwa⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kua⁵⁵/
/kue⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kua⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kua⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kue³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kue²³/
Rime
Character 瓜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 麻 (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古華切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠua/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwaɨ/
Li
Rong		 /kua/
Wang
Li		 /kwa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guā
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瓜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤra/
English melon, gourd

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 瓜
Reading # 1/1
No. 4340
Phonetic
component		 瓜
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 瓜
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷraː/

Definitions

瓜

  1. melon
  2. gourd
  3. (Cantonese slang, humorous) to die

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

瓜

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 胡瓜 (きゅうり, ​kyūri): cucumber
  • 西瓜 (すいか, ​suika): watermelon
  • 南瓜 (かぼちゃ, ​kabocha): a Japanese pumpkin

Kikai

Kanji

瓜 ‎(hiragana うい, romaji ui)

Noun

瓜 ‎(hiragana うい, romaji ui)

  1. gourd

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

瓜 • ‎(gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

瓜 (qua, dưa)

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Yoron

Kanji

瓜 ‎(hiragana うい, romaji ui)

Noun

瓜 ‎(hiragana うい, romaji ui)

  1. cucumber, gourd

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