呱

See also: 哌

Translingual

Han character

呱 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹女人 (RHVO), four-corner 6203₀, composition ⿰口瓜)

1. wail, crying of a child
2. to swear at

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 182, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3454
• Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 604, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5471

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Chinese

trad.		呱
simp. #		呱

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瓜	*kʷraː
坬	*kʷraːs
窊	*qʷraː, *qʷraːs
畖	*qʷraː
搲	*qʷraːs
攨	*qʷraːs
孤	*kʷaː
苽	*kʷaː
胍	*kʷaː
泒	*kʷaː
呱	*kʷaː
觚	*kʷaː
柧	*kʷaː
罛	*kʷaː
軱	*kʷaː
菰	*kʷaː
箛	*kʷaː
狐	*ɡʷaː
弧	*ɡʷlaː

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guā, gū (gua¹, gu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚ, ㄍㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guā
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gua
    • Wade–Giles: kua¹
    • Yale: gwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
    • Palladius: гуа (gua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • 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: gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
    • Yale: gū / wā / gwā / gwá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu¹ / wa¹ / gua¹ / gua²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵/, /waː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kōa
    • Tâi-lô: kuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kua²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kua³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua³³/

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• Middle Chinese: ku

Rime
Character	呱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古胡切
Baxter	ku
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuo/
Pan Wuyun	/kuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ko/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔ/
Li Rong	/ko/
Wang Li	/ku/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	呱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gū
Middle Chinese	‹ ku ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁa/
English	wail
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	呱
Reading #	1/1
No.	4351
Phonetic component	瓜
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	孤
Old Chinese	/*kʷaː/

Definitions

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References

• “呱”, 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–
• “Query for 呱”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

呱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 呱 (oa)

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