扣

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

扣 (radical 64 手+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 手口 (QR), four-corner 5600₀, composition ⿰扌口)

1. knock, strike, rap, tap
2. button

References

• KangXi: page 418, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11807
• Dae Jaweon: page 765, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1829, character 13
• Unihan data for U+6263

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Cantonese

Hanzi

扣 (Jyutping kau3, Yale kau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

扣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: たたく (tataku), ひかえる (hikaeru), うつ (utsu)

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Korean

Hanja

扣 (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

扣 (Pinyin kòu (kou4), sào (sao4), Wade-Giles k'ou⁴, sao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

扣 (khấu, khẩu, khâu, kháu)

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