媾

媾 U+5ABE, 媾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABE ← 媽 [U+5ABD] CJK Unified Ideographs 媿 → [U+5ABF]

Translingual

Han character

媾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 4545₇, composition ⿰女冓)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5ABE

Chinese

trad.		媾
simp. #		媾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	*koː, *kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	*koː, *koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	*koːs, *koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːs): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³ / kau³
• Eastern Min (BUC): gáiu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gieo⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kò͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
    • Wade–Giles: kou⁴
    • Yale: gòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gau³ / kau³
    • Yale: gau / kau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau³ / kau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo³ / keo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gáiu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑu²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gieo⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ga̤̍u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kieu⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kò͘
    • Tâi-lô: kòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kox
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /kɔ²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kɔ¹¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwH

Rime
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古候切
Baxter	kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwH/
Li Rong	/kuH/
Wang Li	/kəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ(r)o-s/
English	2nd marriage
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	媾
Reading #	1/1
No.	4193
Phonetic component	冓
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːs/

Definitions

媾

1. (originally) to marry in a cousin marriage (to cement the relationship between families); (in general) to marry
2. to dote on
3. to make peace; to reach agreement; to negotiate peace
4. to copulate; to have sexual intercourse

Compounds

• 交媾 (jiāogòu)
• 姻媾
• 媾合 (gòuhé)
• 媾和 (gòuhé)
• 淫媾

References

• “媾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “媾”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “媾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 77.

Japanese

Kanji

媾

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sex, coitus
2. intimacy, relation

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: よしみ (yoshimi)

Compounds

• 交媾(こうこう) (kōkō): sexual intercourse

Korean

Hanja

媾 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

媾: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

• Nom Foundation