瞽

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (archaic) 𠑹

Han character

瞽 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土水月山 (GEBU), four-corner 4460₄, composition ⿱鼓目)

1. blind
2. blind musician
3. stupid

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 819, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23745
• Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2516, character 3
• Unihan data for U+77BD

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		瞽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
皷	*kʷaːʔ
鼓	*kʷaːʔ
瞽	*kʷaːʔ

Etymology

From 鼓 (OC *kʷaːʔ, “drum”) (Schuessler, 2007), as musicians were blind in ancient times.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ku³
    • Yale: gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gu²
    • Yale: gú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
    • Tâi-lô: kóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kor
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁵⁵⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kuX

Rime
Character	瞽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	公戸切
Baxter	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/koX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔX/
Li Rong	/koX/
Wang Li	/kuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ kuX ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁaʔ/
English	blind
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	瞽
Reading #	1/1
No.	4338
Phonetic component	鼓
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瞽

1. blind
2. undiscerning

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Japanese

Kanji

瞽

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こ (ko)
• Kun: めしい (meshii)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 瞽 (cổ)

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