夅

See also: 降 and 舛

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

Translingual

Han character

夅 (Kangxi radical 34, 夂+3 in Chinese and Korean, 夂+4 in Japanese, 6 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹水手 (HEQ) or 難竹水手 (XHEQ), four-corner 2750₄, composition ⿱夂㐄)

Derived characters

• 佭, 𠲓, 鿍, 𡜠, 𡶶, 𢓤, 𢘸, 𢭎, 洚, 𤝷, 降, 𪰠, 栙, 𤇺, 𭷟, 𭹇, 胮, 𫞳, 䂫, 𥞜, 袶, 𥹪, 絳(绛), 舽, 𧧭(𬣺), 䜶, 跭, 𨋪, 𨦟, 𮥃, 𩐨, 𮩨, 𩷄, 𥪴, 𪐿, 𢥙
• 逄, 𦮔, 䇨, 𪔔, 𤵸, 𠏤, 㯯, 𡑺, 𢢨

Related characters

• 降 (Orthodox modern form)

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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, descending (feet at top, legs pointing down – upside-down). Compare footprints in 舛 (chuǎn), and foot in 夂 (zhǐ), 夊 (suī).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 夅 – see 降 (“to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down; to visit; to honor with one's presence; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 降).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04414-001#39

Japanese

Kanji

夅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: おおりる (ōriru); おおろす (ōrosu); ふうる (fūru)

Korean

Hanja

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

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