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購
購
See also: 购
Translingual
Han character
購 (radical 154 貝+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月金廿廿月 (BCTTB), four-corner 65857)
References
- KangXi: page 1211, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36885
- Dae Jaweon: page 1677, character 16
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3654, character 2
- Unihan data for U+8CFC
Chinese
| trad. | 購 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 购 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (冓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 溝 | *koː |
| 篝 | *koː |
| 鞲 | *koː |
| 韝 | *koː, *kʰoː |
| 褠 | *koː |
| 冓 | *koː, *koːs |
| 構 | *koːs |
| 購 | *koːs |
| 媾 | *koːs |
| 覯 | *koːs |
| 遘 | *koːs, *koːs |
| 煹 | *koːs |
| 搆 | *koːs |
| 講 | *kroːŋʔ |
| 耩 | *kroːŋʔ |
| 傋 | *kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ |
| 斠 | *kroːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːs) : semantic 貝 (“shellfish”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): kau3, gau3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kieu
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): keu (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: kou4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
- IPA (key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: kau3, gau3
- Yale: kau, gau
- Cantonese Pinyin: kau3, gau3
- IPA (key): /kʰɐu̯³³/, /kɐu̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kieu
- Hakka Romanization System: gieu
- Hagfa Pinyim: gieu4
- IPA: /ki̯eu̯⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kò͘ / káng
- Tâi-lô: kòo / káng
- Phofsit Daibuun: kox, karng
- IPA (Xiamen): /kɔ²¹/, /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁴¹/, /kaŋ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔ²¹/, /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kɔ¹¹/, /kaŋ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔ²¹/, /kaŋ⁴¹/
- Note: káng - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gou3
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kòu
- IPA (key): /kou²¹³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: keu (T2)
- IPA (key): /kɜ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 購 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古候切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kəuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kəuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kəuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kəwH/ |
| Li Rong |
/kuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/kəuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kə̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
gòu |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 購 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4192 |
| Phonetic component |
冓 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
遘 |
| Old Chinese |
/*koːs/ |
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Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
購
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
購 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
購 (cấu)
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