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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Phonosemantic interpretation[edit]

Old Chinese Initial /*k-/ lends semantic value Frame. Final consonant /*-p/ lends semantic value Press. Abbreviated form of phono-semantic indicator (contain) + semantic indicator hole → contain objects tightly by pressing a cover on them. Present-day meanings are via association and extension. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Etymology[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意):  +  (mouth)

Han character[edit]

(radical 30 +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人一口 (OMR), four-corner 80601)

  1. combine, unite, join
  2. gather
  3. small side door, chamber (as simplified )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 174, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3287
  • Dae Jaweon: page 387, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 581, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5408

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(Yale hap6)


Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Counter[edit]

(hiragana ごう, romaji )

  1. covered containers
  2. battles

Noun[edit]

(hiragana ごう, romaji )

  1. 0.18039 liters, equaling ten shakus or a tenth of a shō
  2. a tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain

See also[edit]

  •  (しゃく, shaku)
  •  (しょう, shō)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(hangeul , , revised hap, gap, McCune-Reischauer hap, kap)


Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin (he2), Wade-Giles ho2)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(hiệp, hợp, cáp, cóp, góp, gộp, họp, hạp)