腳

See also: 脚

Translingual

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trad.		腳
simp.		脚

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): ⺼ (“meat, body”) + 卻 – part of the body, the footer or leg.

Han character

腳 (radical 130 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金口中 (BCRL), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿰月卻)

Descendants

• 脚

References

• KangXi: page 989, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29712
• Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2098, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8173

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Chinese

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trad.		腳
simp.		脚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiǎo (jiao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): goek³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kiok
• Min Nan (POJ): kha / kioh
• Wu (WT Romanisation): jiaq (T5)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chiao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeau
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: goek³
    • Yale: geuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goek⁸
    • IPA ^(key): /kœːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiok
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ki̯ok̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kha / kioh
    • Tâi-lô: kha / kioh
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰa⁴⁴/, /kiɔʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰa³⁴/, /kiɔʔ³²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: jiaq (T5)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiᴀʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (腳, reconstructed)
Character (腳), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 藥 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 居勺切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨɐk̚/	/ki̯ak̚/	/kiak̚/	/kiɐk̚/	/kɨak̚/	/kĭak̚/	/kiɑk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (腳, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
腳								jiǎo								‹ kjak ›								/*[k]ak/								leg, foot
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
腳					10737					郤					鐸					0					腳					/*kaɡ/

Definitions

腳

1. foot
2. base, leg, foundation

See also

• 足

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Korean

Hanja

腳 (gak) (hangeul 각, McCune-Reischauer kak, Yale kak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

腳 (cước, cuốc)

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