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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木卜木中 (DYDL), four-corner 47927, composition)

  1. outer coffin
  2. vault

References

  • KangXi: page 547, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15362
  • Dae Jaweon: page 935, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1268, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+69E8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷaːɡ
*tjunʔ, *kʷaːɡ, *kʷreːɡ
*kʷaːɡ
*kʷaːɡ
*kʷaːɡ
*tʰuːn, *kʰʷaːɡ
*kʰʷaːɡ
*kʰʷaːɡ
*kʰʷaːɡ, *qʰʷraːɡ
*qʰʷaːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (104)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kwɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwak̚/
Li
Rong
/kuɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/kuɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwak ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷˤak/
English outer coffin

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 # 1/1
No. 4756
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʷaːɡ/
Notes

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gwak) (hangeul , revised gwak, McCune-Reischauer kwak, Yale kwak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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