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Translingual

Han character

(radical 36 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 田木弓戈弓 (WDNIN), four-corner 67927, composition)

  1. companion
  2. partner
  3. assistant

References

  • KangXi: page 247, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5808
  • Dae Jaweon: page 492, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 865, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5925

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·roːlʔ
*ɡ·roːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
粿 *kloːlʔ
*kʰloːl
*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
*kʰloːlʔ
*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
*ɡroːlʔ
*ɡluːlʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (33) (33)
Final () (32) (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () II I
Fanqie 𠁥
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦˠuɛX/ /ɦuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷᵚæX/ /ɦuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣuæiX/ /ɣuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦwaɨjX/ /ɦwaX/
Li
Rong
/ɣuɛX/ /ɣuɑX/
Wang
Li
/ɣwaiX/ /ɣuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣwaiX/ /ɣuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huà huò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ hwaX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡʷˤ]ajʔ/
English many, much [not pre-Qin]

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 # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 4788 4789 4797
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰloːlʔ/ /*ɡloːlʔ/ /*ɡroːlʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwa, hae) (hangeul , , revised gwa, hae, McCune-Reischauer kwa, hae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(khỏa, loã, hoả)