股

See also: 脵

Translingual

Han character

股 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓水 (BHNE), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿰⺼殳)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 974, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29284
• Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2051, character 7
• Unihan data for U+80A1

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Chinese

trad.		股
simp. #		股

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 股
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
股	*klaːʔ
羖	*klaːʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 肉 (“body”) + 殳 (“action”) – the hips as an active part of the body.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ku³
    • Yale: gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gu²
    • Yale: gú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
    • Tâi-lô: kóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gou²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kóu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kou⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: kuX

Rime
Character	股
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	公戸切
Baxter	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/koX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔX/
Li Rong	/koX/
Wang Li	/kuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	股
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ kuX ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁaʔ/
English	thigh
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	股
Reading #	1/1
No.	4311
Phonetic component	股
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*klaːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 股

1. thigh; haunches
2. share; portion
3. (historical geometry) The longer leg of a right triangle.

   勾股定理  ―  gōugǔdìnglǐ  ―  Pythagoras' theorem

4. Classifier for strength, forces.
5. Classifier for smells or scent.
6. Classifier for groups of people.
7. Classifier for shares in a company.
8. Classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers, etc.

Coordinate terms

• 勾 (gōu)

References

• Tian Miao's "A Formal System of the Gougu Method" in The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions", pp. 386–7.

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Japanese

Kanji

股

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Derived terms

• もも肉, 股肉, 腿肉 (ももにく, momo niku); the meat of the leg, round, ham
• 股引, 股引き, もも引き (ももひき, momo hiki); a close fitting trousers, working trousers

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kun: また (mata, 股, Jōyō); もも (momo, 股)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
股
また Grade: S
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *mata. Cognate with Miyako 股 (また, mata), Okinawan 股 (また, mata).

Alternative forms

• 胯, 叉, 俣

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) また​ [màtáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ma̠ta̠]

Noun

股(また) • (mata) 

1. (anatomy) crotch, the space between the thighs
2. fork in a tree, river, and so on

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Korean

Hanja

股 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 股 (cổ, cỗ)

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