夃

夃 U+5903, 夃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5903 ← 夂 [U+5902] CJK Unified Ideographs 处 → [U+5904]

Translingual

Han character

夃 (Kangxi radical 34, 夂+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹尸水 (NHSE) or 弓尸竹水 (NSHE), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿵乃又)

Derived characters

• 𬗅, 盈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 244, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5693
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 393, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5903

Chinese

simp. and trad.		夃
alternative forms		𡕔

Glyph origin

In oracle bone inscriptions, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 人 (“person”) + [Term?] (“mark on the thigh”) – thigh. Original form of 股 (gǔ).

Shuowen interprets its later form as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𠄎 + 夂.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ, gū

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ, ㄍㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ko͘ / kó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ku³
    • Yale: gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gū
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gu
    • Wade–Giles: ku¹
    • Yale: gū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gu²
    • Yale: gú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
    • Tâi-lô: kóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kuX

Rime
Character	夃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	公戸切
Baxter	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/koX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔX/
Li Rong	/koX/
Wang Li	/kuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	夃
Reading #	1/1
No.	4281
Phonetic component	夃
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*kaːʔ/

Definitions

夃

1. (obsolete) to have great profit in sales

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 夃 – see 贏 (“to win; to triumph; to be victorious; to beat; to defeat; to triumph over; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 贏).

References

• “夃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

夃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)、えい (ei)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)、えい (ei)
• Kun: もうける (mōkeru, 夃ける)、うる (uru, 夃る)、しばらく (shibaraku, 夃く)