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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿十口月 (TJRB), four-corner 44627)

  1. bottle-gourd

References

  • KangXi: page 1045, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31443
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3244, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+846B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaːls
*kaːls
*kɯ, *kas
*kaː, *kʰaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
*kaː
*kaː
*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
*kaː, *kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːʔ
*kaːs
*kaːs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kaːɡs
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaː
*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
*qʰaː, *ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaː
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ
*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
*ɡaːʔ
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *kas, *kʰa
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka
*ka, *ɡa
*kas
*kas
*kas
*ɡaːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (32)
Final () (23) (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuo/ /huo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuo/ /huo/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣo/ /xo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔ/ /hɔ/
Li
Rong
/ɣo/ /xo/
Wang
Li
/ɣu/ /xu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuo/ /xuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤa/
English 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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4244 4252
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰaː/ /*ɡaː/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 亞腰葫蘆亚腰葫芦
  • 依樣葫蘆依样葫芦
  • 倒地葫蘆倒地葫芦
  • 冰糖葫蘆冰糖葫芦
  • 包葫蘆頭包葫芦头
  • 實葫蘆实葫芦
  • 悶葫蘆闷葫芦
  • 悶葫蘆罐闷葫芦罐
  • 打悶葫蘆打闷葫芦
  • 打混葫蘆打混葫芦
  • 提葫蘆提葫芦
  • 揜口葫蘆揜口葫芦
  • 沒嘴葫蘆没嘴葫芦
  • 油葫蘆油葫芦
  • 火葫蘆火葫芦
  • 糖葫蘆糖葫芦 (tánghúlu)
  • 葫蘆葫芦 (húlu)
  • 葫蘆兒葫芦儿

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. gourd, bottle-gourd
  2. garlic

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ho) (hangeul , revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(hồ)

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