狗

See also: 豿

Translingual

Han character

狗 (radical 94 犬+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大竹心口 (KHPR), four-corner 4722₀, composition ⿰犭句)

References

• KangXi: page 709, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20345
• Dae Jaweon: page 1121, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1341, character 5
• Unihan data for U+72D7

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		狗

Etymology

From some language ancestral to modern Hmong-Mien languages.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǒu (gou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kiéu
• Min Nan (POJ): káu / kó͘
• Wu (WT Romanisation): keu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: kou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goou
    • IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau²
    • Yale: gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau²
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiéu
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ki̯eu̯³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: káu / kó͘
    • Tâi-lô: káu / kó͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaʊ⁴¹/, /kɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaʊ⁵³/, /kɔ⁵³/
  • Note: kó͘ is literary.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: keu (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /kɜ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (狗, reconstructed)
Character (狗), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 古厚切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kəuX/	/kə̯uX/	/kuX/	/kəuX/	/kəwX/	/kəuX/	/kəuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (狗, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
狗								gǒu								‹ kuwX ›								/*Cə.kˤroʔ/								dog
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
狗					7068					句					侯					0					苟					/*koːʔ/

Noun

狗

狗 (classifier 隻/只, 条/條)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) dog

Synonyms

• 犬 (archaic or dialectal)

Compounds

Derivations

狗寶 (trad.), 狗宝 (simp.) 狗吃屎 狗膽包天 (trad.), 狗胆包天 (simp.) 狗苟蠅營 (trad.), 狗苟蝇营 (simp.) 狗急跳牆 (trad.), 狗急跳墙 (simp.) 狗命 狗拿耗子 狗刨, 狗刨兒 (trad.), 狗刨儿 (simp.) 狗皮膏藥 (trad.), 狗皮膏药 (simp.) 狗屁 狗屁不通 狗肉 狗屎堆 狗頭軍師 (trad.), 狗头军师 (simp.) 狗腿子 狗窩 (trad.), 狗窝 (simp.) 狗熊 狗血噴頭 (trad.), 狗血喷头 (simp.) 狗眼看人低 狗咬 狗咬狗 狗崽子 狗子 狗嘴吐部出象牙 (trad.), 狗嘴長不出象牙 (simp.) 狗仗人勢 (trad.), 狗仗人势 (simp.) 看家狗 獵狗 (trad.), 猎狗 (simp.) 落水狗 魚狗 (trad.), 鱼狗 (simp.) 母狗 狗改不了吃屎

References

• Peyraube, Alain. "Ancient Chinese." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Ed. Roger D. Woodard. Cambridge UP, 2004. 1012.

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• 犬

Kanji

狗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. puppy, dog
2. a sentinel
3. a snoop or spy
4. useless, wasteful

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こう (kō)
• Kun: いぬ (inu)

Compounds

• 狗肉 (くにく) (kuniku, “dog meat”)
• 狗鷲 (いぬわし) (inuwashi, “golden eagle”)
• 天狗 (てんぐ) (tengu, “long-nosed goblin; braggart”)

References

JIS: 3669 Kuten: 2273 Shift JIS: 72D7 EUC-JP: B6E9 Frequency: not ranked Nelson: 2875

New Nelson: 3565 Halpern: 345 Halpern Learners: not listed Heisig: 2341 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3g5.5

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Noun

狗 (hiragana いぬ, romaji inu)

1. puppy

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

狗 (cẩu)

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