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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

A dog (a Labrador)

(radical 94 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大竹心口 (KHPR), four-corner 47220)

  1. dog, Canis lupus familiaris

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale gau2)


[edit] Japanese

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] References

  • 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.

[edit] Noun

(hiragana いぬ, romaji inu)

  1. puppy

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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


[edit] Mandarin

simpl. and trad.

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin gǒu (gou3), Wade-Giles kou3)

[edit] Etymology

From some language ancestral to modern Hmong-Mien languages.

[edit] Noun

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin gǒu)

  1. dog

[edit] Compounds

[edit] References

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

[edit] Min Nan

[edit] Hanzi

(POJ káu)

  1. dog

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(cẩu)

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