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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

(radical 39 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓木竹女人 (NDHVO), four-corner 12430)

  1. orphan, fatherless
  2. solitary

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 279, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6966
  • Dae Jaweon: page 547, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1014, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5B64

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale gu1)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. solitude, alone
  2. orphan

[edit] Readings

[edit] Etymology 1

From Chinese  (, alone, lonely).

[edit] Noun

(hiragana , romaji ko)

  1. An orphan.
  2. Solitude.

[edit] Etymology 2

Jukujikun kanji use for the term みなしご, itself a compound of  (mi, identity, family) +  (nashi, none, without) +  (ko, child). The final syllable's ko reading changes to go due to rendaku (連濁).

[edit] Noun

(hiragana みなしご, romaji minashigo)

  1. An orphan.

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko)


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin (gu1), Wade-Giles ku1)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(, co, còi, côi, go, )

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