咕

Translingual

Han character

咕 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口十口 (RJR), four-corner 6406₀, composition ⿰口古)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3522
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 598, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5495

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		咕

Glyph origin

Considered a 後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 古 (gǔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gū (gu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ko͘

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• Mandarin
  • (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
    • Yale: gū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咕

1. An onomatopoeia.
2. (colloquial) to stand up someone; to fail to show up (derived from 放鴿子)

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Japanese

Kanji

咕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: ぶつぶついう (butsubutsuiu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 咕 (cô, cổ)

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