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Translingual

Han character

(radical 162 +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿廿月 (YTTB), four-corner 35305, composition)

  1. to meet unexpectedly
  2. to come across

References

  • KangXi: page 1262, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39031
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1756, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3869, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+9058

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 *koːs, *koːs) : semantic  (walk) + phonetic  (OC *koː, *koːs).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kəuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kəuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəwH/
Li
Rong
/kuH/
Wang
Li
/kəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gòu
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4195 4198
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːs/ /*koːs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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