庫

See also: 库 and 厙

Translingual

Han character

庫 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈十田十 (IJWJ), four-corner 0025₆, composition ⿸广車)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9330
• Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 884, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5EAB

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Chinese

trad.		庫
simp.		库

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
車	*kʰlja, *kla
硨	*kʰlja
厙	*qʰljaːs
庫	*kʰaːs

Etymology

According to Karlgen (1956), cognate with 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla, “carriage”) (< "storehouse for carriages").

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kù (ku⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ku⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khò͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kù
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kù
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu⁴
    • Yale: kù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuh
    • Palladius: ку (ku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu³
    • Yale: fu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ku⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰu⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò͘
    • Tâi-lô: khòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qox
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɔ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kou³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰou²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: khuH

Rime
Character	庫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦故切
Baxter	khuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɔH/
Li Rong	/kʰoH/
Wang Li	/kʰuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kù
Middle Chinese	‹ khuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰˁa-s/
English	arsenal; storehouse
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	庫
Reading #	1/1
No.	1314
Phonetic component	車
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	絝
Old Chinese	/*kʰaːs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 庫

1. warehouse; storehouse; (file) library
2. (physics) Short for 庫侖／库仑 (kùlún, “coulomb (unit of electrical charge)”).

Descendants

• → Mongolian: ᠬᠦᠦ (küü) / хүү (xüü)

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Japanese

Kanji

庫

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. warehouse

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: く (ku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: くら (kura, 庫)

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Korean

Hanja

庫 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 庫 (khố, kho, khó)

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