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角
角
Translingual
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Alternative forms
Note distinctions between whether the central vertical stroke in 角 extends to the bottom (as in 用), which is sometimes seen in simplified, or stops at the last horizontal line (like 田 with 2 legs on the sides), which is used in traditional,Japanese, and some simplified – see the etymology.
Han character
角 (radical 148 角+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓月土 (NBG) or 弓月手 (NBQ), four-corner 27227)
- Kangxi radical #148, ⾓ (“horn”).
Derived characters
- Index:Chinese radical/角
References
- KangXi: page 1139, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35003
- Dae Jaweon: page 1606, character 2
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3919, character 1
- Unihan data for U+89D2
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
角 | |
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| alt. forms | 腳／脚 “role; actor” | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 角
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 捔 | *sɡroːɡ, *kroːɡ |
| 桷 | *kroːɡ |
| 角 | *kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ |
| 埆 | *kʰroːɡ |
| 确 | *ɡroːɡ |
| 斛 | *ɡoːɡ |
| 槲 | *ɡoːɡ |
| 蔛 | *ɡoːɡ |
Pictogram (象形) – a horn.
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gok3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kok
- Min Dong (BUC): gáe̤k
- Min Nan (POJ): kak
- Wu (Wiktionary): koq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˇ
- Wade-Giles: chiao3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeau
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
- Wade-Giles: chüeh2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
- Note: jiǎo - colloquial (“horn; angle; corner; ten cents; role; actor; to contend; Horn mansion”); jué - literary (“role; actor; music note; to contend; Horn mansion”).
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gok3
- Yale: gok
- Cantonese Pinyin: gok8
- IPA (key): /kɔːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kok
- Hakka Romanization System: gog`
- Hagfa Pinyim: gog5
- IPA: /kok̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gáe̤k
- IPA (key): /kɔyʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kak
- Tâi-lô: kak
- Phofsit Daibuun: kag
- IPA (Xiamen): /kak̚³²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kak̚⁵/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kak̚³²/
- IPA (Taipei): /kak̚³²/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kak̚³²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: koq (T4)
- IPA (key): /kʊʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 角 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing |
/t͡ɕiɑu²¹⁴/ /t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/ |
| Harbin |
/t͡ɕiau²¹³/ 三～ /t͡ɕia²¹³/ 斜抹掉～ |
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| Tianjin |
/t͡ɕiɑu¹³/ /t͡ɕye⁴⁵/ ～色 |
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| Jinan |
/t͡ɕyə²¹³/ /t͡ɕiɔ²¹³/ |
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| Qingdao | /t͡ɕyə⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡ɕyo³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡ɕyo²¹/ | |
| Xining | /t͡ɕyu⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan |
/kə¹³/ /t͡ɕye¹³/ |
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| Lanzhou |
/t͡ɕyə¹³/ 一～錢 /kə¹³/ 牆～子 |
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| Ürümqi |
/t͡ɕyɤ²¹³/ /kɤ²¹³/ |
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| Wuhan |
/t͡ɕio²¹³/ 一～錢 /kuo²¹³/ 牛～ |
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| Chengdu |
/ko³¹/ /t͡ɕyo³¹/ |
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| Guiyang |
/ko²¹/ 牛～ /t͡ɕio²¹/ 一～錢 |
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| Kunming | /ko³¹/ | |
| Nanjing |
/koʔ⁵/ /t͡ɕioʔ⁵/ |
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| Hefei |
/t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/ /kɐʔ⁵/ |
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| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡ɕyəʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /t͡ɕyʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot |
/t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/ ～～ /t͡ɕiɔ⁵³/ 圪～～ |
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| Wu | Shanghai | /koʔ⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /koʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou |
/koʔ⁵/ 牛～ /t͡ɕiɑ⁵/ 一～ |
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| Wenzhou | /ko²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /kɔʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi | /ko⁵/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha |
/t͡ɕio²⁴/ /ko²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /ko²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /kɔʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kok̚¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /kok̚²²/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kɔk̚³/ |
| Nanning | /kɔk̚³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kɔk̚³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /kak̚³²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kɔyʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) |
/ku²⁴/ /kɔ²⁴/ |
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| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kak̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /kak̚⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 角 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 覺 (10) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 古岳切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kˠʌk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kᵚɔk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɔk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kaɨwk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɔk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɔk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɔk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jue |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 角 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jiǎo |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kæwk › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.[k]ˤrok/ |
| English | horn, corner |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 角 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| No. | 6372 |
| Phonetic component |
角 |
| Rime group |
屋 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
覺 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kroːɡ/ |
Definitions
角
- horn; antler
- angle; corner
- bugle; horn
- point
- (numismatics) one tenth of a yuan or dollar
- Synonyms: 毛 (máo)
- role; part; character
- actor; actress
- (music) third note in the Chinese pentatonic scale or mi
- to contend; to compete; to challenge
- (astronomy) Horn mansion (one of the twenty-eight mansions)
Compounds
Derived terms from 角
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Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: lu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luh
- IPA (key): /lu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 角 |
| Reading # | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (3) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 盧谷切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/luk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/luk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/luk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ləwk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/luk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/luk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/luk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lù |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 角 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 6376 |
| Phonetic component |
角 |
| Rime group |
屋 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
禄 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡ·roːɡ/ |
Definitions
角
- †Only used in 角里 (“placename”).