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柯

柯

Translingual

Han character

柯 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木一弓口 (DMNR), four-corner 41920, composition ⿰木可)

References

  • KangXi: page 520, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14658
  • Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1178, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+67EF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 柯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (可) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
砢 *ɡ·raːlʔ
柯 *kaːl
菏 *kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁 *kaːl
滒 *kaːl
哥 *kaːl
歌 *kaːl
謌 *kaːl
鴚 *kaːl
哿 *kaːlʔ
舸 *kaːlʔ
笴 *kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻 *kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂 *kʰaːl
可 *kʰaːlʔ
岢 *kʰaːlʔ
坷 *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵 *kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵 *qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶 *qʰaːl
抲 *qʰaːl
荷 *qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何 *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河 *ɡaːl
苛 *ɡaːl
魺 *ɡaːl
袔 *ɡaːls
阿 *qaːl
妸 *qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴 *qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳 *qaːl
娿 *qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾 *qaːl
跒 *kʰraːlʔ
閜 *qʰraːlʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 柯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 歌 (94)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古俄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ka/
Li
Rong		 /kɑ/
Wang
Li		 /kɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gē
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 柯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ka ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤar/
English axe-handle

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 柯
Reading # 1/1
No. 7433
Phonetic
component		 可
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 歌
Old
Chinese		 /*kaːl/

Definitions

柯

  1. axe handle
  2. stalk, bough
  3. used as a surname
  4. Kyrgyz (the people, language, etc.)
  5. tan oak

Descendants

  • (Hokkien dialect) Tagalog: Cua

References

Japanese

Kanji

柯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

柯 • ‎(ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune-Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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