叩

Translingual

Han character

叩 (radical 30 口+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口尸中 (RSL), four-corner 6702₀)

1. knock
2. kowtow
3. [archaic] to enquire; to ask

References

• KangXi: page 172, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3238
• Dae Jaweon: page 382, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 573, character 3
• Unihan data for U+53E9

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Cantonese

Hanzi

叩 (Yale kau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

叩 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: たたく (tataku), たたき (tataki)

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Korean

Hanja

叩 (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

叩 (pinyin kòu (kou4), zhī (zhi1), Wade-Giles k'ou⁴, chih¹)

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Vietnamese

Hán Từ

叩 (khấu)