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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹一口 (YHMR), four-corner 32306)

  1. meet unexpectedly

References

  • KangXi: page 1256, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38848
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1741, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3830, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9005

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*koːʔ
*koːʔ, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs
*koːʔ
*koːs
*ɡoː
*ɡoː
*ɡoːʔ, *ɡoːs
*ɡoːʔ
*ɡoːʔ
*ɡoːs
*ɡoːs
缿 *ɡoːs, *ɡroːŋʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦəwH/
Li
Rong
/ɣuH/
Wang
Li
/ɣəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ huwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˤro-s/
English 邂逅 xièhòu carefree (Odes 94.1– 2, 118.2)

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. 5171
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
𠋫
Old
Chinese
/*ɡoːs/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 邂逅 (xièhòu)
  • 邂逅之緣邂逅之缘
  • 邂逅相逢
  • 邂逅相遇

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(hu) (hangeul , revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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