誥

See also: 诰

誥 U+8AA5, 誥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AA5 ← 誤 [U+8AA4] CJK Unified Ideographs 誦 → [U+8AA6]

Translingual

Han character

誥 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹土口 (YRHGR), four-corner 0466₁, composition ⿰訁告 or ⿰訁吿)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1163, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35549
• Dae Jaweon: page 1629, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3976, character 17
• Unihan data for U+8AA5

Chinese

trad.		誥
simp.		诰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 誥
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
造	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥	*skʰuːɡs
艁	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙	*skʰuːɡs
告	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
誥	*kuːɡs
郜	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰	*kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠	*kʰuːɡs
浩	*ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧	*ɡuːʔ
皓	*ɡuːʔ
窖	*kruːɡs
簉	*skʰruɡs
梏	*kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞	*kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿	*kuːɡ
鵠	*kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷	*kʰuːɡ
焅	*kʰuːɡ
嚳	*kʰuːɡ
頶	*ɡuːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gào (gao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gào
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gào
    • Wade–Giles: kao⁴
    • Yale: gàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gaw
    • Palladius: гао (gao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gou³
    • Yale: gou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kawH

Rime
Character	誥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古到切
Baxter	kawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kawH/
Li Rong	/kɑuH/
Wang Li	/kɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤuk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kuːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	誥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gào
Middle Chinese	‹ kawH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁuk-s/
English	announce, inform
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	誥
Reading #	1/1
No.	3806
Phonetic component	告
Rime group	奧
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	誥
Old Chinese	/*kuːɡs/

Definitions

誥

1. to inform; to notify; to admonish; to order

Compounds

• 五花官誥／五花官诰
• 典謨訓誥／典谟训诰
• 制誥／制诰 (zhìgào)
• 周誥／周诰
• 官誥／官诰
• 封誥／封诰
• 庭誥／庭诰
• 知制誥／知制诰 (zhīzhìgào)
• 誥命／诰命 (gàomìng)
• 誥封／诰封
• 誥授／诰授
• 誥誡／诰诫 (gàojiè)
• 誥贈／诰赠
• 酒誥／酒诰

 

Japanese

Kanji

誥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. state
2. give instructions

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• On: こく (koku)
• Kun: つげる (tsugeru, 誥げる); おしえる (oshieru, 誥える); たけぶ (takebu, 誥ぶ); いましめ (imashime, 誥め); みことのり (mikotonori)

Korean

Hanja

誥 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

1. inform, notify, admonish, order

Vietnamese

Han character

誥: Hán Nôm readings: cáo

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