咼

See also: 呙

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 冎 + semantic 口

Han character

咼 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月月口 (BBR), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿵冎口)

1. chat, jaw, gossip, talk
2. mouth

Derived terms

• 過, 剮, 渦, 堝, 喎, 萵, 媧, 禍, 腡, 窩, 鍋, 蝸, 卨

References

• KangXi: page 188, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3573
• Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 616, character 1
• Unihan data for U+54BC

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Chinese

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trad.		咼
simp.		呙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guō, wāi (guo¹, wai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛ, ㄨㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaa³, waa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guō
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛ
    • Wade-Giles: ko¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guo
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wāi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄞ
    • Wade-Giles: wai¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uai
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯aɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaa³, waa¹
    • Yale: gwa, wā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaa³, waa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑː³³/, /wɑː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (咼, reconstructed)
Character (咼), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 佳 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 苦緺切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɣuɛ/	/kʰwai/	/kʰuɛ/	/kʰʷɯæ/	/kʰwaɨj/	/kʰwai/	/kʰuæi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (咼, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
咼								wāi								‹ kwæX ›								/*kʷˤrajʔ/								cut meat from the bone
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
咼					4397					冎					歌					3					咼					/*kʰʷroːl/

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Japanese

Kanji

咼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: か (ka), かい (kai)
• Kun: よこしま (yokoshima)

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Korean

Hanja

咼 (gwae) (hangeul 괘, revised gwae, McCune-Reischauer kwae, Yale kway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咼 (oà, oa, ùa, ua, uả)

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