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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +9, 18 strokes, cangjie input 人戈田一女 (OIWMV), four-corner 86732)

  1. to feed, to raise

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1423, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44294
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1949, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4464, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9935

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl, *quːls
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːlʔ
*quːlʔ, *qulʔ
*quːlʔ
*quːlʔ, *qruːl
*quːlʔ
*qrols
*quls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qrols) : semantic  + phonetic  (OC *quls).

Pronunciation



Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12937
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qrols/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to feed (animal, baby)
  2. to raise; to keep (animal)

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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