哭

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 吅 + phonetic 犬 (“獄”)

Han character

哭 (radical 30 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK), four-corner 6643₀, composition ⿱吅犬)

1. weep, cry, wail

Descendants

• 喪

References

• KangXi: page 190, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3658
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 629, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54ED

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Cantonese

Hanzi

哭 (Yale huk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

哭

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こく (koku)
• Kun: なく (naku)

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Korean

Hanja

哭 (gok) (hangeul 곡, revised gok, McCune-Reischauer kok)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku˥/

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Hanzi

哭 (Pinyin kū (ku1), Wade-Giles k'u¹)

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2. to cry

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Middle Chinese

Han character

哭 (*kuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哭 (khốc, khóc)

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