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Translingual

Stroke order
4 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 39, +1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓木山 (NDU), four-corner 12410, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 277, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 544, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1008, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5B54

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Bronze inscriptions: Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : 丿 (opening) + (child) – opening in the skull of a newborn, i.e. fontanelle.

Etymology

"hole"
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (hole; orifice; inner part). (OC *kʰloːŋʔ, “hole”) is probably the endoactive derivation of (OC *kʰoːŋ, “hollow; empty”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan ཁུང (khung, hole), Jingpho ladi hku (lədî hkū, nostril), Chepang घाङ् (gʰaŋ, hole), Burmese အခေါင် (a.hkaung, hollow place; cavity), Naxi kho³³ (cave; hole; pit) (STEDT).

"peacock": (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Compare Reconstruction:Proto-Vietic/k-voːŋ”)

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. hole; aperture; opening
  2. Classifier for cave dwellings, oil wells, etc.
  3. large
  4. fine
  5. very
  6. peacock
  7. a surname
  8. (specifically) Short for 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ, “Confucius”).

Synonyms

  • (hole):
  • (Confucius):
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See also

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. cavity

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(gong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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