溝

See also 沟

Translingual

simpl.		沟
trad.		溝

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 冓 – a ditch or drain for water.

Han character

溝 (radical 85 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水廿廿月 (ETTB), four-corner 3514₇)

1. ditch, drain, narrow waterway
2. 10^32

Descendants

• 沟

References

• KangXi: page 639, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17944
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1692, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6E9D

See also

• Chinese numeral 溝
  • Last: 穰, 穣
  • Next: 澗, 涧

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Cantonese

Hanzi

溝 (simplified 沟, Yale kau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

溝 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: みぞ (mizo)

Noun

溝 (hiragana みぞ, romaji mizo)

1. a ditch
2. a groove
3. a gulf; a gap

Number

溝 (hiragana こう, romaji kō)

1. A number of 10³² in modern Japanese since 17th century.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

溝 (simplified 沟, pinyin gǎng (gang3), gōu (gou1), kòu (kou4), Wade-Giles kang³, kou¹, k'ou⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

溝 (gou)

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Vietnamese

Han character

溝 (câu)