狗

Translingual

Han character

A dog (a Labrador)

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

1. dog, Canis lupus familiaris
2. sentinel

Synonyms

• 犬

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

狗 (Yale gau2)

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• 犬
• イヌ

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

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
狗

Hanzi

狗 (pinyin gǒu (gou3), Wade-Giles kou³)

Etymology

From some language ancestral to modern Hmong-Mien languages.

Noun

狗 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin gǒu)

1. dog

Compounds

• 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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Min Nan

Hanzi

狗 (POJ káu)

1. dog

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Vietnamese

Han character

狗 (cẩu)