哿

哿 U+54FF, 哿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54FF ← 哾 [U+54FE] CJK Unified Ideographs 唀 → [U+5500]

Translingual

Han character

哿 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大口一弓口 (KRMNR), four-corner 4662₁, composition ⿱加可)

1. excellent
2. to commend
3. to be able to

Derived characters

• 𥰮

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 191, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3685
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 635, character 4
• Unihan data for U+54FF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		哿

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	*kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	*kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻	*kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	*kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵	*kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵	*qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	*qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	*ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴	*qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gě (ge³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄜˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): go² / ho²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gě
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gě
    • Wade–Giles: ko³
    • Yale: gě
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gee
    • Palladius: гэ (gɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɤ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: go² / ho²
    • Yale: gó / hó
    • Cantonese Pinyin: go² / ho²
    • Guangdong Romanization: go² / ho²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔː³⁵/, /hɔː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kaX

Rime
Character	哿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古我切
Baxter	kaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑX/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaX/
Li Rong	/kɑX/
Wang Li	/kɑX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gě
Expected Cantonese Reflex	go2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	哿
Reading #	1/1
No.	7441
Phonetic component	可
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	哿
Old Chinese	/*kaːlʔ/

Definitions

哿

1. excellent; acceptable; pleasing

   • 哿矣富人，哀此惸獨。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     哿矣富人，哀此惸独。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Gě yǐ fùrén, āi cǐ qióng dú. [Pinyin]

     The rich may get through, but alas for the helpless and solitary!

2. to praise
3. (～日) (telegraphy) the twentieth day of a month

Japanese

Kanji

哿

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. good, excellent

Readings

• Go-on: か (ka)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: よい (yoi, 哿い)

Usage notes

Used in the Nihon Shoki as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ka⟩:

• 720, Nihon Shoki (poem 84/87)

  野麻登陛爾(やまとへに)瀰我保指母能婆(みがほしものは)於尸農瀰能(おしぬみの)莒能陀(このた)哿(か)紀儺屡(きなる)都奴娑之能瀰野(つのさしのみや) [Man'yōgana]

  大和(やまと)辺(へ)に見(み)が欲(ほ)しものは忍海(おしぬみ)の此(こ)の高(たか)城(き)なる角刺(つのさし)の宮(みや) [Modern spelling]

  Yamato-he ni mi ga hoshi mono wa Oshinumi no kono takaki naru Tsunosashi no miya

  Up Yamato way[,] what a person wants to see is this high stronghold at Oshinumi―the palace of Tsunosashi.

Korean

Hanja

哿 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哿: Hán Việt readings: cả, khả, khá
哿: Nôm readings: cả, gá, gả, khá

1. chữ Nôm form of cả
   1. main; biggest; whole
   2. used in mà cả (“to bargain”)
2. chữ Nôm form of gả (“to give (one's offspring) in marriage”)
3. chữ Nôm form of khá (“fairly/decently competent; fine”)