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渴

渴

See also: 渇

Translingual

Han character

渴 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水日心女 (EAPV), four-corner 36127, composition ⿰氵曷)

References

  • KangXi: page 635, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17788
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1042, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1676, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6E34

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 渴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 渴
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愒 *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤 *qaːds
靄 *qaːds, *qaːd
餲 *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝 *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭 *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈 *ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲 *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛 *kaːd
輵 *kaːd
獦 *klaːd, *rab
渴 *kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑 *kʰaːd
暍 *qʰaːd, *qad
曷 *ɡaːd
褐 *ɡaːd
鶡 *ɡaːd
毼 *ɡaːd
蝎 *ɡaːd
鞨 *ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏 *qaːd
齃 *qaːd
堨 *qaːd
擖 *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬 *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅 *kʰrad
藒 *kʰrad
竭 *ɡrad, *ɡad
碣 *ɡrad, *ɡad
羯 *kad
鍻 *kad
歇 *qʰad
蠍 *qʰad
謁 *qad

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 渴 渴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 曷 (63) 薛 (83)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I Chongniu III
Fanqie 苦曷切 渠列切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɑt̚/ /ɡˠiᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰɑt̚/ /ɡᵚiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰɑt̚/ /ɡiæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰat̚/ /giat̚/
Li
Rong		 /kʰɑt̚/ /ɡjɛt̚/
Wang
Li		 /kʰɑt̚/ /ɡĭɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰɑt̚/ /gi̯ɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ke jué
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kě
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khat ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-[k]ʰˤat/
English thirsty

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 渴 渴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 5025 5055
Phonetic
component		 曷 曷
Rime
group		 月 月
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 渴 傑
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːd/ /*ɡrad/
Notes 說文右加欠 後通作竭

Definitions

渴

  1. thirsty
    口渴  ―  kǒukě  ―  thirsty
    渴望  ―  kěwàng  ―  to thirst/to long for

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

渴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. thirsty
  2. parched
  3. yearn
  4. pine

Readings

Korean

Hanja

渴 • ‎(gal, geol) (hangeul 갈, 걸, McCune-Reischauer kal, kŏl, Yale kal, kel)

  1. thirsty

Vietnamese

Han character

渴 (khát, kiệt, hạt)

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