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Translingual

Han character

(radical 118 +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿廿月 (HTTB), four-corner 88557, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 894, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26320
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1321, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2997, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7BDD

Chinese

simp. and trad.

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  (bamboo) + phonetic  (OC *koː, *koːs).

Pronunciation



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 bamboo cage

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. 4186
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koː/

Definitions

  1. bamboo basket; bamboo frame; bamboo cage

Compounds

  • 篝火 (gōuhuǒ)
  • 篝火狐鳴篝火狐鸣
  • 篝燈篝灯
  • 衣篝

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Kanji in this term
かがり
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana かがり, romaji kagari)

  1. watchfire, fishing fire, bonfire
  2. iron basket for a fire
  3. guardhouse during the Kamakura period

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • 篝筏 (かがりいかだ) (kagariikada)
  • 篝灯籠 (かがりどうろう) (kagaridōrō)
  • 篝船 (かがりぶね) (kagaribune)
  •  () (かがり) (sutekagari)
  • 花篝 (はなかがり) (hanakagari)
  • 虫篝 (むしかがり) (mushikagari)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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