掘

掘 U+6398, 掘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6398 ← 掗 [U+6397] CJK Unified Ideographs 掙 → [U+6399]

See also: 撅

Translingual

Han character

掘 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手尸山山 (QSUU), four-corner 5707₂, composition ⿰扌屈)

1. dig, excavate
2. excavate a cave

References

• KangXi: page 438, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12264
• Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1909, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6398

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		掘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 掘
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (出) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
聉	*r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅	*kljods
祟	*sqʰluds
出	*kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁	*ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪	*qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀	*ŋr'uːd
袦	*ŋr'oːd
咄	*ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮	*sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙	*kljod
炪	*kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘	*ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯	*l'uːd
啒	*kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈	*kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟	*kʰluːd
泏	*kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀	*kʰluːd, *ɡlud
朏	*kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
窋	*ʔl'ud
絀	*ʔl'ud
黜	*l̥ʰud
屈	*klud, *kʰlud
趉	*klud
鶌	*klud
詘	*kʰlud
倔	*ɡlud
崛	*ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwat⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ku̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chüeh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwat⁶
    • Yale: gwaht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwat⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gued⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɐt̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku̍t
    • Tâi-lô: ku̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kut
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kut̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kut̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kut̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kut̚⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 掘
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕyə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕyə²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕyɛ²¹/
	Xining	/t͡ɕyu⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕye¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕyə⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕye²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕʰyo³¹/ /t͡ɕʰy³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰiu²¹/ 老 /t͡ɕie²¹/ 新
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰiu³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/d͡ʑyɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/d͡ʑyəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡zz̩ʷəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕye²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕyæ²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰiut̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/kʰut̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kwɐt̚²/
	Nanning	/kʷet̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/kwɐt̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kut̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kuʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ky⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kuk̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kut̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨut̚/, /ɡʉɐt̚/▼

Rime
Character	掘	掘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	物 (60)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	衢物切	其月切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨut̚/	/ɡʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiut̚/	/ɡʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuət̚/	/ɡiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gut̚/	/guat̚/
Li Rong	/ɡiuət̚/	/ɡiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/ɡĭuət̚/	/ɡĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯uət̚/	/gi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jú	jué

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ut/, /*[ɡ]ot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡlod/, /*ɡlud/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	掘	掘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ gjut ›	‹ gjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ut/	/*[ɡ]ot/
English	dig out (earth)	dig out (earth)
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	掘	掘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1559	1586
Phonetic component	出	出
Rime group	月	物
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	𧤼	倔
Old Chinese	/*ɡlod/	/*ɡlud/

Definitions

掘

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Japanese

Kanji

掘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ごち (gochi)
• Kan’on: くつ (kutsu, Jōyō); けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: ほる (horu, 掘る, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

掘 • (gul, gwol) (hangeul 굴, 궐, revised gul, gwol, McCune-Reischauer kul, kwŏl, Yale kwul, kwel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

掘 (quật, oặt, quặt, quất, quịt, quát, quạt)

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