夅

See also: 舛

夅 U+5905, 夅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5905 ← 处 [U+5904] CJK Unified Ideographs 夆 → [U+5906]

Translingual

Etymology

Characters in the same phonetic series (夅) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
贛	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms
灨	*kluːmʔ, *kluːms
竷	*kʰluːms
戇	*kr'oːms, *qʰloːms
洚	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ
降	*kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ
絳	*kruːŋs
栙	*ɡruːŋ
夅	*ɡruːŋ
跭	*ɡruːŋ
隆	*ɡ·ruːŋ
癃	*ɡ·ruːŋ
窿	*ɡ·ruːŋ
霳	*ɡ·ruːŋ

Pictogram (象形) – feet pointing down, descent (feet at top, legs pointing down – upside-down). Compare footprints in 舛, and foot in 夂, 夊.

Han character

夅 (radical 34 夂+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹水手 (HEQ) or X竹水手 (XHEQ), composition ⿱夂㐄)

1. to descend
2. to come down from heaven
3. to send down

Related characters

• 降

References

• KangXi: page 244, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5695
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 868, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5905

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 夅 – see 降 (“to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down; to visit; to honour with one's presence; etc.”). (This character, 夅, is a variant form of 降.)

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Kanji

夅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: おおりる (ooriru), おおろす (oorosu), ふうる (fuuru)

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Hanja

夅 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune-Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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