枯

Translingual

Han character

枯 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木十口 (DJR), four-corner 4496₀, composition ⿰木古)

Derived characters

• 喖, 𤋹, 𩹬, 𬃱, 𬄮, 𬅂, 𢉽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 517, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14579
• Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1178, character 3
• Unihan data for U+67AF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		枯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 枯
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
箇	*kaːls
個	*kaːls
居	*kɯ, *kas
橭	*kaː, *kʰaː
嫴	*kaː
姑	*kaː
辜	*kaː
酤	*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄	*kaː
鴣	*kaː
沽	*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬	*kaː, *kaːʔ
古	*kaːʔ
罟	*kaːʔ
估	*kaːʔ
鈷	*kaːʔ
詁	*kaːʔ
牯	*kaːʔ
故	*kaːs
固	*kaːs
稒	*kaːɡs
痼	*kaːɡs
錮	*kaːɡs
鯝	*kaːɡs
棝	*kaːɡs
凅	*kaːɡs
枯	*kʰaː
軲	*kʰaː
跍	*kʰaː
骷	*kʰaː
苦	*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫	*qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬	*ɡaː
瑚	*ɡaː
湖	*ɡaː
鶘	*ɡaː
猢	*ɡaː
醐	*ɡaː
糊	*ɡaː
箶	*ɡaː
蝴	*ɡaː
胡	*ɡaː
瓳	*ɡaː
怙	*ɡaːʔ
祜	*ɡaːʔ
岵	*ɡaːʔ
婟	*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛	*ɡaːʔ
据	*ka
裾	*ka
琚	*ka
椐	*ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋	*ka
蜛	*ka
崌	*ka
涺	*ka
腒	*ka, *ɡa
鋸	*kas
倨	*kas
踞	*kas
涸	*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰaː) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 枯

1. (of plants, etc.) dry; withered

   枯萎  ―  kūwěi  ―  wilted; withered

2. (of wells, rivers, etc.) dried out
3. (of muscle) withered; decayed
4. boring; uninteresting; dry

   枯燥  ―  kūzào  ―  dull; boring

5. (dialect) dregs
6. (traditional Chinese medicine) partial paralysis
7. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

枯

(Jōyō kanji)

1. wither; dry up

Readings

• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kun: かれる (kareru, 枯れる, Jōyō); からす (karasu, 枯らす, Jōyō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

枯 (khô, gỗ, khò)

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