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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓水 (BHNE), four-corner 77247, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 974, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29284
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2051, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+80A1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*klaːʔ
*klaːʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (body) +  (action) – the hips as an active part of the body.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɔX/
Li
Rong
/koX/
Wang
Li
/kuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷˤaʔ/
English thigh

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. 4311
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klaːʔ/

Definitions

  1. thigh; haunches
  2. share; portion
  3. (mathematics) the longest leg of a right triangle
    定理   gōudìnglǐ   Pythagoras' theorem
  4. Classifier for strength, forces.
  5. Classifier for smells or scent.
  6. Classifier for groups of people.
  7. Classifier for shares in a company.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Derived terms

  • もも肉, 股肉, 腿肉 (ももにく, momo niku); the meat of the leg, round, ham
  • 股引, 股引き, もも引き (ももひき, momo hiki); a close fitting trousers, working trousers

Readings

Noun

(hiragana また, romaji mata)

  1. (anatomy) crotch, the space between the thighs
  2. fork in a tree, river, and so on

Alternative forms


Korean

Hanja

(go) (hangeul , revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cổ, cỗ)

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