娯

See also: 娛 and 娱

娯 U+5A2F, 娯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A2F ← 娮 [U+5A2E] CJK Unified Ideographs 娰 → [U+5A30]

Translingual

Traditional	娛
Shinjitai	娯
Simplified	娱

Etymology

Japanese form Simplified from 娛 (吳 → 呉).

Present form Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 呉.

Han character

娯 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 女口女金 (VRVC), composition ⿰女呉)

1. pleasure, enjoyment, amusement

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 263, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6307
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1051, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5A2F

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 娯 – see 娛 (“to amuse; to entertain; amusing; entertaining; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 娛).

Japanese

Shinjitai	娯
Kyūjitai	娛

Kanji

娯

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 娛)

1. recreation

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: ぐ (gu)、ご (go, Jōyō)
• Kun: たのしみ (tanoshimi, 娯しみ)、たのしむ (tanoshimu, 娯しむ)
• The ぐ goon reading derives from both of the two possible Middle Chinese readings, ngju, and nguH.
• The kan'on readings ぐ and ご proceed from the corresponding MC readings above.

Korean

Hanja

娯 (eum 오 (o))

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