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掘

掘

See also: 撅

Translingual

Han character

掘 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手尸山山 (QSUU), four-corner 57072, composition ⿰扌屈)

  1. dig, excavate
  2. excavate a cave

References

  • KangXi: page 438, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12264
  • Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1909, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6398

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 掘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 掘
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (出) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
聉 *r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅 *kljods
祟 *sqʰluds
出 *kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁 *ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪 *qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀 *ŋr'uːd
袦 *ŋr'oːd
咄 *ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮 *sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙 *kljod
炪 *kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘 *ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯 *l'uːd
啒 *kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈 *kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟 *kʰluːd
泏 *kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀 *kʰluːd, *ɡlud
朏 *kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
窋 *ʔl'ud
絀 *ʔl'ud
黜 *l̥ʰud
屈 *klud, *kʰlud
趉 *klud
鶌 *klud
詘 *kʰlud
倔 *ɡlud
崛 *ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 掘
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕyə⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕyə²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕyɛ²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕyu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕyə⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕye²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰyo³¹/
/t͡ɕʰy³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰiu²¹/ 老
/t͡ɕie²¹/ 新
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiu³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /d͡ʑyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷəʔ²/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕye²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕyæ²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /kʰiut̚¹/
Taoyuan /kʰut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwɐt̚²/
Nanning /kʷet̚²²/
Hong Kong /kwɐt̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kut̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ky⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /****̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kut̚³/
Rime
Character 掘 掘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 物 (60) 月 (68)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 衢物切 其月切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨut̚/ /ɡʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiut̚/ /ɡʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuət̚/ /ɡiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gut̚/ /guat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiuət̚/ /ɡiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭuət̚/ /ɡĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯uət̚/ /gi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jú jué
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 掘 掘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jué jué
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjut › ‹ gjwot ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ut/ /*[ɡ]ot/
English dig out (earth) dig out (earth)

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 掘 掘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1559 1586
Phonetic
component		 出 出
Rime
group		 月 物
Rime
subdivision		 3 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𧤼 倔
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡlod/ /*ɡlud/

Definitions

掘

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Japanese

Kanji

掘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

掘 • ‎(gul, gwol) (hangeul 굴, 궐, revised gul, gwol, McCune-Reischauer kul, kwŏl, Yale kwul, kwel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

掘 (quật, oặt, quặt, quất, quịt, quát, quạt)

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