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矍

矍

Translingual

Han character

矍 (radical 109 目+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月山人土水 (BUOGE), four-corner 6640₇, composition ⿱瞿又)

look about in fright or alarm

References

KangXi: page 820, character 17

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23792

Dae Jaweon: page 1232, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2520, character 13

Unihan data for U+77CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		矍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	kʷaɡ, kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	kʷaɡ, ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	kʷaɡ, qʰʷaɡ
戄	ɡʷaɡ, ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): jué (jue²)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fok³, gwok³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: jué
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
  - Wade-Giles: chüeh²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: fok³, gwok³
  - Yale: fok, gwok
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fok⁸, gwok⁸
  - IPA ^(key): /fɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/

Middle Chinese: /kʉɐk̚/▼

Rime
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	藥 (108)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居縛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuak̚/
Li Rong	/kiuak̚/
Wang Li	/kĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)ak/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷaɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwak ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)ak/
English	anxious look
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	矍
Reading #	1/1
No.	7265
Phonetic component	矍
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	玃
Old Chinese	/*kʷaɡ/

Definitions

矍

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Compounds

矍然

矍矍

矍鑠／矍铄 (juéshuò)

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

矍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: かく (kaku)

Kun: おどろき (odoroki)

Korean

Hanja

矍 • ‎(hwak) (hangeul 확, revised hwak, McCune-Reischauer hwak, Yale hwak)

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