彀

Translingual

Han character

彀 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE) or 難土弓竹弓 (XGNHN), four-corner 4724₇, composition ⿹𣪊弓)

1. enough, adequate
2. fully, quite

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9844
• Dae Jaweon: page 678, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2161, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5F40

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		彀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
彀	*koːɡs
鷇	*kʰoːɡs
瞉	*kʰoːɡs
豰	*pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
瑴	*kroːɡ, *koːɡ
愨	*kʰroːɡ
殼	*kʰroːɡ
觳	*kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ
嗀	*qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
穀	*kloːɡ
糓	*kloːɡ
轂	*kloːɡ
榖	*kloːɡ
瀔	*koːɡ
縠	*ɡloːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

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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
    • Yale: gau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwH

Rime
Character	彀
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤ(r)ok-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁ(r)ok-s/
English	draw a bow to the full
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	彀
Reading #	1/1
No.	7413
Phonetic component	殻
Rime group	候
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːɡs/
Notes	原文弓在下

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 彀

1. (literary) to draw a bow to the full
2. ^† target
3. ^† shooting range
4. ^† good shooter
5. ^‡ good
6. (literary) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 夠／够 (gòu).

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Japanese

Kanji

彀

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. enough
2. adequate fully
3. quite

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō); く (ku)

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Korean

Hanja

彀 (eum 구 (gu))

1. draw a bow to the full
2. shoot a bow

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Vietnamese

Han character

彀: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

• Nom Foundation