縠

縠 U+7E20, 縠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E20 ← 縟 [U+7E1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 縡 → [U+7E21]

Translingual

Han character

縠 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 土火竹弓水 (GFHNE) or 難土火竹弓 (XGFHN), four-corner 4794₇, composition ⿹𣪊糸)

1. crepe (silk)
2. fine silk gauze

Derived characters

• 瀫, 𧂔, 𥷆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 934, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27780
• Dae Jaweon: page 1373, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2166, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7E20

Chinese

simp. and trad.		縠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
彀	*koːɡs
鷇	*kʰoːɡs
瞉	*kʰoːɡs
豰	*pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
瑴	*kroːɡ, *koːɡ
愨	*kʰroːɡ
殼	*kʰroːɡ
觳	*kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ
嗀	*qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
穀	*kloːɡ
糓	*kloːɡ
轂	*kloːɡ
榖	*kloːɡ
瀔	*koːɡ
縠	*ɡloːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hú (hu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): huk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hú
    • Wade–Giles: hu²
    • Yale: hú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: huk⁶
    • Yale: huhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: huk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: huwk

Rime
Character	縠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	東 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡谷切
Baxter	huwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəwk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	huk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡloːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	縠
Reading #	1/1
No.	7431
Phonetic component	殻
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	縠
Old Chinese	/*ɡloːɡ/

Definitions

縠

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Japanese

Kanji

縠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. crepe

Readings

• Go-on: ごく (goku)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)
• Kun: ちぢみぎぬ (chijimiginu); となみ (tonami)

Compounds

• 縠(こく)衫(さん) (kokusan)
• 縠(こく)紋(もん) (kokumon)
• 縠(こめ)織(おり) (komeori)
• 綺(き)縠(こく) (kikoku)
• 紗(さ)縠(こく) (sakoku)
• 霧(む)縠(こく) (mukoku)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 縠 (MC huwk).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ko̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [곡]

Hanja

Wikisource

縠 (eumhun 주름 비단 곡 (jureum bidan gok))

1. silk fabrics
2. crepe
3. silk

Compounds

• 출곡 (秫縠, chulgok)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]