夒

See also: 夔

夒 U+5912, 夒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5912 ← 夑 [U+5911] CJK Unified Ideographs 夓 → [U+5913]

Translingual

Han character

夒 (Kangxi radical 35, 夊+16, 19 strokes, Cangjie input 一金竹水 (MCHE), four-corner 1040₇, composition ⿱⿳一⿲止自巳八夂(GH) or ⿱⿳丆⿲止目巳八夂(GH) or ⿱⿳一⿲止自巳八夊(T) or ⿱⿳丆⿲止目巳八夊(T) or ⿱⿳一⿲止自巳儿夂(J) or ⿱⿳丆⿲止目巳儿夂(J) or ⿳丆⿲止見巳夂(J) or ⿱⿳一⿲止自㔾八夂(K) or ⿱⿳丆⿲止目㔾八夂(K) or ⿳丆⿲止貝㔾夂(K))

Derived characters

• 巎, 獿, 㹛, 夔, 虁

Additional Derived Characters

• 𠑍, 𢅼, 𢥝, 𢺕, 𪺈, 𤫕, 𡖂

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 245, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5741
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 871, character 23
• Unihan data for U+5912

Chinese

trad.		夒
simp. #		夒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 夒
Shang	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
獿	*nuːw, *rnuːwʔ
犪	*ɡrul, *njiwʔ
擾	*njiwʔ

Pictogram (象形).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): náo (nao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nou⁴ / naau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: náo
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: náo
    • Wade–Giles: nao²
    • Yale: náu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nau
    • Palladius: нао (nao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nou⁴ / naau⁴
    • Yale: nòuh / nàauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nou⁴ / naau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: nou⁴ / nao⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nou̯²¹/, /naːu̯²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ml'uː/, /*mljiwʔ/, /*ml'us/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夒
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	náo
Middle Chinese	‹ naw ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁu/
English	a kind of monkey
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	夒	夒	夒
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	8802	8807	8824
Phonetic component	矛	矛	矛
Rime group	幽	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	猱	擾	糅
Old Chinese	/*ml'uː/	/*mljiwʔ/	/*ml'us/
Notes		本豸旁註此異體， 實同字分化

Definitions

夒

1. Original form of 猱 (náo).

Japanese

Kanji

夒

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. a large monkey

Readings

• On (unclassified): どう (dō)、のう (nō)

References

• Kanji Jiten Online・漢字辞典オンライン