窟

Translingual

Han character

窟 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十金尸山山 (JCSUU), four-corner 3027₂, composition ⿱穴屈)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 866, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25552
• Dae Jaweon: page 1294, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2734, character 14
• Unihan data for U+7A9F

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Chinese

trad.		窟
simp. #		窟

Glyph origin

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
胐	*kʰluːd
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): kū (ku¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fat¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): gwut
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khut

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kug⁴ / kuh⁴ / uh⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kū
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ku
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu¹
    • Yale: kū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ku
    • Palladius: ку (ku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fat¹
    • Yale: fāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: fed¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐt̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: gwut
    • Hakka Romanization System: gwud`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gwud⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /gwut̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khut
    • Tâi-lô: khut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰut̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kug⁴ / kuh⁴ / uh⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khuk / khuh / uh
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuk̚²/, /kʰuʔ²/, /uʔ²/

Note:

• kug4 - literary;
• kuh4/uh4 - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: khwot

Rime
Character	窟
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦骨切
Baxter	khwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuot̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwət̚/
Li Rong	/kʰuət̚/
Wang Li	/kʰuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ku
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fat1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kʰ]ˤut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰluːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	窟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kū
Middle Chinese	‹ khwot ›
Old Chinese	/*[kʰ]ˁut/
English	cave, hole
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	窟
Reading #	1/1
No.	1565
Phonetic component	出
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	窟
Old Chinese	/*kʰluːd/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 窟

1. hole; cave
2. cellar
3. underground

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Japanese

Kanji

窟

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: こつ (kotsu)
• Kan’yō-on: くつ (kutsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: いわや (iwaya, 窟)

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Korean

Hanja

窟 • (gul) (hangeul 굴, revised gul, McCune–Reischauer kul, Yale kwul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 窟 (quật)

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