咢

咢 U+54A2, 咢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A2 ← 咡 [U+54A1] CJK Unified Ideographs 咣 → [U+54A3]

咢 U+2F840, 咢 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F840 ← 周 [U+2F83F] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 哶 → [U+2F841]

Translingual

Han character

咢 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口口一一尸 (RRMMS), four-corner 6620₇, composition ⿱吅亏)

Derived characters

• 偔, 㗁, 堮, 𪦊, 崿, 愕, 湂, 𨺨, 㮙, 腭, 𥈭, 𥔲, 𦉅, 𧍞, 諤(谔), 鍔(锷), 鰐(鳄), 𮭯, 齶(𮯋)
• 遌, 㓵, 卾, 鄂, 𠤁, 𦫩, 覨, 𨜝, 𭋍, 𩀇, 顎(颚), 鶚(鹗), 㟧, 萼, 𥯳, 𡼰, 𡈆, 𲍅, 𦽺, 𣽺, 𬧒, 𨬱, 㠋, 蕚

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 186, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3529
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 615, character 6
• Unihan data for U+54A2

• Unihan data for U+2F840

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咢
alternative forms		㖾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咢
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

The same character as 噩, both ultimately derived from or identical to 喪, see there for more.

Later phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋaːɡ) : semantic 吅 + phonetic 屰 (OC *ŋraɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngok⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): go̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ngok⁶
    • Yale: ngohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: go̍k
    • Tâi-lô: go̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡɔk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡɔk̚⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: ngak

Rime
Character	咢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五各切
Baxter	ngak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋak̚/
Li Rong	/ŋɑk̚/
Wang Li	/ŋɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	è
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	咢
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ngak ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁak/
English	beat a drum
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	咢
Reading #	1/1
No.	9461
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	咢
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːɡ/
Notes	說文下作屰，隸變

Definitions

咢

1. to argue
2. Alternative form of 愕 (“to be surprised”)
3. Alternative form of 鍔／锷 (“blade (edge) of a sword”)
4. edge of a house

Compounds

• 咢咢 (è'è)

 

References

• “咢”, 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

咢

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. outspokenly

Readings

• Go-on: がく (gaku)
• Kan-on: がく (gaku)
• Kun: おどろく (odoroku, 咢く)

Korean

Hanja

咢 • (ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune–Reischauer ak)

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