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Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷas, *ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa, *ɡʷas
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷa
*ɡʷas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa) : phonetic  (eyes) + semantic  (bird).

the eyesight of eagles

Han character

(radical 109 +13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月山人土 (BUOG), four-corner 66214, composition)

  1. used as a surname

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 819, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23747
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2517, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+77BF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (30) (28)
Final () (24) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨo/ /kɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡio/ /kioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡio/ /kioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/guə̆/ /kuə̆H/
Li
Rong
/ɡio/ /kioH/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭu/ /kĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯u/ /ki̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ʷ(r)a/
English a kind of lance

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 7137 7138
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʷas/ /*ɡʷa/
Notes

Definition

  1. A surname.

Pronunciation 2


Definition

  1. shocked or scared

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, , cồ)

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