古

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

from 十 ‘ten’ + 口 ‘mouths’.

[edit] Han character

古 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十口 (JR), four-corner 40600, composition ⿱十口)

  1. old, classic, ancient
  2. used as a surname

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  • KangXi: page 171, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3233
  • Dae Jaweon: page 380, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 568, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53E4

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

古 (jyutping gu2, Yale gu2)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology

inisipe > inisiɸe > inisiwe > inisie. Literally "that which has passed". From the verb in- (“‘pass’”) in adverbial form ini, the past marker ki in attributive form si, and pe (“‘time, direction’”).

[edit] Noun

古 (hiragana いにしえ, romaji inishie, historical hiragana いにしへ)

  1. the past

[edit] Kanji

古 (grade 2 kanji)

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[edit] Hanja

古
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 고 (revised: go, McCune-Reischauer: ko)
  • Name (hangeul): 예 (revised: ye, McCune-Reischauer: ye)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

古 (pinyin gǔ (gu3), Wade-Giles ku3)

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古 (*gǒ)

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[edit] Han character

古 (cổ, cỗ, kẻ)

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