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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金口中 (BCRL), four-corner 77220, composition)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 989, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29712
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2098, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8173

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kaɡ
*kaɡ
*kaɡ, *kʰaɡ
*kʰaɡ
*kraɡ, *kraɡ
*kʰraɡ
*kʰraɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kaɡ) :  (meat, body) +  – part of the body, the footer or leg.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/kiak̚/
Wang
Li
/kĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jue
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjak ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ak/
English leg, foot

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. 10737
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaɡ/

Definitions

  1. foot
  2. base, leg, foundation

See also

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gak) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer kak, Yale kak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(cước, cuốc)

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