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竅

竅

See also: 窍

Translingual

Han character

竅 (radical 116 穴+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹尸大 (JCHSK), four-corner 30248)

  1. hole, opening, aperture

References

  • KangXi: page 869, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1298, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2744, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+7AC5

Chinese

trad. 竅
simp. 窍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (敫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礉 *kʰreːw, *kʰreːwɢs
邀 *qlew, *kleːw
憿 *kleːw
徼 *kleːw, *kleːwɢs
儌 *kleːwʔ, *kleːwʔ
璬 *kleːwʔ
皦 *kleːwʔ
繳 *kleːwʔ, *kljewɢ, *ɡreːɡ
敫 *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ
譥 *kleːwɢs
激 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ
噭 *kleːwɢs
獥 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
鸄 *kleːwɢs, *kleːwɢ, *ɡleːwɢ
墽 *kʰleːw
竅 *kʰleːwɢs
覈 *ɡleːd, *ɡreːɡ
燩 *kʰreːwɢ, *kʰleːwɢ
檄 *ɡleːwɢ
薂 *ɡleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰleːwɢs) : semantic 穴 ‎(“cave”) + phonetic 敫 ‎(OC *kleːwɢs, *ɢlewɢ, *kleːwɢ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 竅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 蕭 (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 苦弔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰeuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰeuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰeuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɛwH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰeuH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 竅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khewH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤewk-s/
English hole, opening

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 竅
Reading # 1/1
No. 6399
Phonetic
component		 敫
Rime
group		 豹
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 竅
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰleːwɢs/

Definitions

竅

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Compounds

  • 一竅不通／一窍不通
  • 七竅／七窍 (qīqiào)
  • 七竅生煙／七窍生烟
  • 不識竅／不识窍
  • 中竅／中窍
  • 九竅／九窍
  • 孔竅／孔窍
  • 得竅／得窍
  • 心竅／心窍 (xīnqiào)
  • 有竅／有窍
  • 歸竅／归窍
  • 痰迷心竅／痰迷心窍
  • 知竅／知窍
  • 竅門／窍门 (qiàomén)
  • 萬竅／万窍
  • 訣竅／诀窍 (juéqiào)
  • 財迷心竅／财迷心窍
  • 迷了心竅／迷了心窍
  • 通竅／通窍
  • 鑿竅／凿窍
  • 開竅／开窍
  • 關竅／关窍
  • 餘竅／余窍
  • 鬼迷心竅／鬼迷心窍 (guǐmíxīnqiào)
  • 鬼頭關竅／鬼头关窍

References

Japanese

Kanji

竅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

竅 • ‎(gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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