筈

筈 U+7B48, 筈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B48 ← 筇 [U+7B47] CJK Unified Ideographs 等 → [U+7B49]

Translingual

Han character

筈 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, Cangjie input 竹竹十口 (HHJR), four-corner 8860₄, composition ⿱𥫗舌)

Derived characters

• 𨬼

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 882, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25990
• Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2967, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7B48

Chinese

trad.		筈
simp. #		筈

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
咶	*qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話	*ɡroːds
刮	*kroːd
鴰	*kroːd, *koːd
趏	*kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌	*ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡	*ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢	*ɡroːd, *koːd
括	*koːd
活	*koːd, *ɡoːd
适	*koːd, *kʰoːd
栝	*koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸	*koːd, *ɡoːd
髺	*koːd
聒	*koːd
銛	*koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀	*koːd
懖	*koːd
筈	*koːd, *kʰoːd
萿	*koːd
蛞	*kʰoːd
闊	*kʰoːd
秳	*ɡoːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuò, guā (kuo⁴, gua¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ, ㄍㄨㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuò
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuo⁴
    • Yale: kwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
    • Palladius: ко (ko)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guā
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gua
    • Wade–Giles: kua¹
    • Yale: gwā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
    • Palladius: гуа (gua)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kut³
    • Yale: kut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kut⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwat, khwat

Rime
Character	筈	筈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	末 (64)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古活切	苦栝切
Baxter	kwat	khwat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑt̚/	/kʰuɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑt̚/	/kʰʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑt̚/	/kʰuɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwat̚/	/kʰwat̚/
Li Rong	/kuɑt̚/	/kʰuɑt̚/
Wang Li	/kuɑt̚/	/kʰuɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑt̚/	/kʰuɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guo	kuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gut3	fut3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːd/, /*kʰoːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	筈	筈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7579	7582
Phonetic component	桰	桰
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	括
Old Chinese	/*koːd/	/*kʰoːd/
Notes	說文作栝

Definitions

筈

1. (literary) arrow end; nock

   alt. forms: 栝

Compounds

• 箭筈

Japanese

Kanji

筈

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. notch of an arrow, nock
2. "it should be so"

Readings

• Go-on: かち (kachi)^{←くわち (kwati, historical)}
• Kan-on: かつ (katsu)^{←くわつ (kwatu, historical)}
• Kun: やはず (yahazu, 筈)、はず (hazu, 筈)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
筈
はず Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
弭

For pronunciation and definitions of 筈 – see the following entry.

【はず】 [noun] nock; the grooves that hold a bowstring on a bow, the notch that holds an arrow to the bowstring [noun] (sumo) a nock-shaped grip used in はず押(お)し (hazu oshi) [noun] as things should be; what is expected; that which should be so; must be; bound to be; expected to be [noun] (Okinawa) what may happen; as things could be Alternative spelling 弭

(This term, 筈, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲筈”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

筈 • (gwal) (hangeul 괄, revised gwal, McCune–Reischauer kwal, Yale kwal)

References

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