珂

珂 U+73C2, 珂 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73C2 ← 珁 [U+73C1] CJK Unified Ideographs 珃 → [U+73C3]

Translingual

Han character

珂 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土一弓口 (MGMNR), four-corner 1112₀, composition ⿰𤣩可)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 729, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20906
• Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1105, character 18
• Unihan data for U+73C2

Chinese

simp. and trad.		珂

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
砢	*ɡ·raːlʔ
柯	*kaːl
菏	*kaːl, *ɡaːl
牁	*kaːl
滒	*kaːl
哥	*kaːl
歌	*kaːl
謌	*kaːl
鴚	*kaːl
哿	*kaːlʔ
舸	*kaːlʔ
笴	*kaːlʔ, *kaːnʔ
軻	*kʰaːl, *kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
珂	*kʰaːl
可	*kʰaːlʔ
岢	*kʰaːlʔ
坷	*kʰaːlʔ, *kʰaːls
蚵	*kʰaːls, *ɡaːl
呵	*qʰaːl, *qʰaːls
訶	*qʰaːl
抲	*qʰaːl
荷	*qʰaːls, *ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
何	*ɡaːl, *ɡaːlʔ
河	*ɡaːl
苛	*ɡaːl
魺	*ɡaːl
袔	*ɡaːls
阿	*qaːl
妸	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
疴	*qaːl, *kʰraːls
鈳	*qaːl
娿	*qaːl, *qaːlʔ
痾	*qaːl
跒	*kʰraːlʔ
閜	*qʰraːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰaːl): semantic 𤣩 (“jade”) + phonetic 可 (OC *kʰaːlʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kē (ke¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): o¹ / ngo¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): kŏ̤
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ko¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kē
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ke
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo¹
    • Yale: kē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ke
    • Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: o¹ / ngo¹
    • Yale: ō / ngō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: o¹ / ngo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: o¹ / ngo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔː⁵⁵/, /ŋɔː⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰo⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ko¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kho
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰo³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kha

Rime
Character	珂
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦何切
Baxter	kha
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰa/
Li Rong	/kʰɑ/
Wang Li	/kʰɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kē
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰaːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	珂
Reading #	1/1
No.	7445
Phonetic component	可
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珂
Old Chinese	/*kʰaːl/

Definitions

珂

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a pretty stone white as jade

Compounds

• 玉珂
• 珂粉蝶 (kēfěndié)
• 珂羅版 / 珂罗版 (kēluóbǎn)
• 珂里
• 珂雪
• 鳴珂巷 / 鸣珂巷

References

• “珂”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02605

Japanese

Kanji

珂

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)
• Kun: くつわがい (kutsuwagai)、くつわ (kutsuwa)

Korean

Hanja

珂 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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