祛

See also: 袪

Translingual

Han character

祛 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈火土戈 (IFGI), four-corner 3423₁, composition ⿰礻去)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 841, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24670
• Dae Jaweon: page 1260, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2390, character 23
• Unihan data for U+795B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祛
alternative forms		佉

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
佉	*kʰal
呿	*kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab
抾	*kʰɯ, *kʰɯ, *kʰab
弆	*kaʔ, *kʰaʔ
祛	*kʰa
袪	*kʰa
阹	*kʰa
胠	*kʰa, *kʰas, *kʰab
魼	*kʰa, *kʰl'aːb
去	*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
麮	*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
鼁	*kʰas
砝	*kaːb, *kab
劫	*kab, *kab
鉣	*kab
蜐	*kab, *kab
怯	*kʰab

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 祛

1. expel, remove, disperse, exorcise

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Japanese

Kanji

祛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. expel
2. disperse
3. exorcise

Readings

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: きょ (kyo)
• Kun: はらう (harau, 祛う)

Compounds

• 祛痰(きょたん) (kyotan): expectoration

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Korean

Hanja

祛 • (geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune–Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

1. shiver
2. exorcise