故

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

故 (radical 66 攴+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十口人大 (JROK), four-corner 4864₀, composition ⿰古攵)

1. ancient, old
2. reason, because

References

• KangXi: page 469, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13161
• Dae Jaweon: page 820, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1453, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6545

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Cantonese

Hanzi

故 (Yale gu3)

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Japanese

Kanji

故 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. late (deceased)

Readings

• On: こ (ko)
• Kun: ゆえ (yue), こと (koto), ことさらに (kotosarani)

Compounds

故意 (こい, koi) 故人 (こじん, kojin) 故事 (こじ, koji) 温故知新 (おんこちしん, onkochishin)

故事成語 (こじせいご, kojiseigo) 故意犯 (こいはん, koihan) 物故 (ぶっこ, bukko) 病故 (びょうこ, byōko)

吐故納新 (とこのうしん, tokonōshin) 故障 (こしょう, koshō) 故郷 (こきょう, kokyō) 縁故 (えんこ, enko)

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Korean

Hanja

故 (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

故 (pinyin gǔ (gu3), gù (gu4), Wade-Giles ku³, ku⁴)

Compounds

• 故事
• 故意
• 故乡 / 故鄉

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Vietnamese

Han character

故 (cố, cớ)