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冓

冓

冓	U+5193, 冓 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5193

← 冒
[U+5192]

CJK Unified Ideographs

冔 →
[U+5194]

See also: 黃 and 黄

Translingual

Han character

冓 (radical 13 冂+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿土月 (TTGB), four-corner 5555₇, composition ⿱井再 or ⿱𠀎冉)

a secluded place
secret cabinet

Derived terms

構, 篝, 溝, 媾, 遘, 講, 購, 覯, 斠, 鞲, 遘, 篝

Descendants

勾 (simplification is compounds, such as 沟, from 溝, and 购, from 購)

See also

再, 爯
黃, 黄

References

KangXi: page 129, character 25

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1540

Dae Jaweon: page 291, character 16

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 100, character 17

Unihan data for U+5193

Chinese

simp. and trad.		冓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	koː, kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	koː, koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	koːs, koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	kroːŋʔ, qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): gòu, gōu (gou⁴, gou¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ, ㄍㄡ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: gòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
  - Wade-Giles: kou⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
  - IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: gōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡ
  - Wade-Giles: kou¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gou
  - IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gau³
  - Yale: gau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
  - IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /kəu/, /kəu^H/▼

Rime
Character	冓	冓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古侯切	古候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəu/	/kəu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kəu/	/kəu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kəu/	/kəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəw/	/kəw^H/
Li Rong	/ku/	/ku^H/
Wang Li	/kəu/	/kəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯u/	/kə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōu	gòu

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*koː/, /*koːs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冓
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*kˤ(r)o-s/
English	中冓 inner chamber
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	冓	冓
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4190	4196
Phonetic component	冓	冓
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	鉤	遘
Old Chinese	/*koː/	/*koːs/

Japanese

Kanji

冓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: こう (kō)

Kun: かまえる (kamaeru)

Korean

Hanja

冓 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冓 (cấu)

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