冓

See also: 黃 and 黄

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – blocks of wood

Han character

冓 (radical 13 冂+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿土月 (TTGB), four-corner 5555₇, composition ⿱井再)

1. a secluded place
2. secret cabinet

Derived terms

• 構, 篝, 溝, 媾, 遘, 講, 購, 覯, 斠, 鞲, 遘, 韝

Descendants

• 勾 (simplification is compounds, such as 沟, from 溝, and 购, from 購)

See also

• 再, 爯
• 黃, 黄

References

• KangXi: page 129, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1540
• Dae Jaweon: page 291, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 100, character 17
• Unihan data for U+5193

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		冓

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòu, gōu (gou⁴, gou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ, ㄍㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
    • IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: kou¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gou
    • IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau³
    • Yale: gau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (冓, reconstructed)
Character (冓), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古侯切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kəu/	/kə̯u/	/ku/	/kəu/	/kəw/	/kəu/	/kəu/
Character (冓), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古候切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kəuH/	/kə̯uH/	/kuH/	/kəuH/	/kəwH/	/kəuH/	/kəuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (冓, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
冓								gòu								‹ kuwH ›								/*kˤ(r)o-s/								中冓 inner chamber
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
冓					4190					冓					侯					0					鉤					/*koː/
冓					4196					冓					侯					0					遘					/*koːs/

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Japanese

Kanji

冓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: かまえる (kamaeru)

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Korean

Hanja

冓 (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

冓 (cấu)

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