窠

Translingual

Han character

窠 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 十金田木 (JCWD), four-corner 3090₄, composition ⿱穴果)

1. bird’s nest in cave
2. nest
3. house
4. division
5. vacancy
6. pit, hole

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 866, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25556
• Dae Jaweon: page 1294, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2732, character 20
• Unihan data for U+7AA0

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Chinese

trad.		窠
simp. #		窠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
裸	*ɡ·roːlʔ
躶	*ɡ·roːlʔ
果	*kloːlʔ
菓	*kloːlʔ
猓	*kloːlʔ
輠	*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
裹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
蜾	*kloːlʔ
惈	*kloːlʔ
粿	*kloːlʔ
窠	*kʰloːl
稞	*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
課	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
髁	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
棵	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
顆	*kʰloːlʔ
堁	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
敤	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
夥	*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
婐	*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
踝	*ɡroːlʔ
祼	*ɡluːlʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kē (ke¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo¹ / wo¹

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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: fo¹ / wo¹
    • Yale: fō / wō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo¹ / wo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo¹ / wo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː⁵⁵/, /wɔː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwa

Rime
Character	窠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦禾切
Baxter	khwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwa/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑ/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fo1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰloːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窠
Reading #	1/1
No.	4776
Phonetic component	果
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	科
Old Chinese	/*kʰloːl/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 窠

1. Classifier for plants. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

References

• “窠”, 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–

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Japanese

Kanji

窠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. nest
2. hole
3. indentation
4. den

Readings

• On (unclassified): か (ka)
• Kun: す (su)

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Korean

Hanja

窠 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

1. nest
2. hole
3. indentation
4. den