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Translingual

Han character

(radical 152 +9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一人口尸水 (MORSE), four-corner 17247)

References

  • KangXi: page 1198, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1660, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3618, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+8C6D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kraː
*kraː
*kraː, *kraːʔ
*kraː
*kraː
*kraː
*kraː
*kraːʔ, *kraːs
*kraːʔ
*kraːʔ
*kraːʔ
*kraːʔ
*qʰraː, *ɡraː
*qʰraː, *qʰraːs
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraː
*ɡraːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kraː) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *kraːʔ).

Derivative: (“home”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/ka/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨ/
Li
Rong
/ka/
Wang
Li
/ka/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ka/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiā
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 5951
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kraː/

Definitions

  1. boar; male pig
  2. (in general) pig

Compounds

  • 艾豭

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. boar
  2. male pig

Readings

  • On: (ka), (ke)
  • Kun: おすのいのこ (osunoinoko)

Korean

Hanja

(ga) (hangeul , revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka)

  1. a (male) hog
  2. a boar