胠

Translingual

Han character

胠 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月土戈 (BGI), four-corner 7423₁, composition ⿰月去)

1. armpit

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 979, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29398
• Dae Jaweon: page 1431, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2056, character 6
• Unihan data for U+80E0

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Chinese

trad.		胠
simp. #		胠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 胠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
佉	*kʰal
呿	*kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab
抾	*kʰɯ, *kʰɯ, *kʰab
弆	*kaʔ, *kʰaʔ
祛	*kʰa
袪	*kʰa
阹	*kʰa
胠	*kʰa, *kʰas, *kʰab
魼	*kʰa, *kʰl'aːb
去	*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
麮	*kʰaʔ, *kʰas
鼁	*kʰas
砝	*kaːb, *kab
劫	*kab, *kab
鉣	*kab
蜐	*kab, *kab
怯	*kʰab

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qū (qu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi¹, koe¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü¹
    • Yale: chyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi¹, koe¹
    • Yale: kēui, kēu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹, koe¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹, kê¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵ kʰœː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khjo, khjoH, khjaep

Rime
Character	胠	胠	胠
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	魚 (22)	業 (147)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	III
Fanqie	去魚切	丘倨切	去劫切
Baxter	khjo	khjoH	khjaep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨʌ/	/kʰɨʌH/	/kʰɨɐp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰiɔ/	/kʰiɔH/	/kʰiɐp̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiɔ/	/kʰiɔH/	/kʰiɐp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɨə̆/	/kʰɨə̆H/	/kʰɨap̚/
Li Rong	/kʰiɔ/	/kʰiɔH/	/kʰiap̚/
Wang Li	/kʰĭo/	/kʰĭoH/	/kʰĭɐp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯wo/	/kʰi̯woH/	/kʰi̯ɐp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qū	qù	qie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi1	heoi3	hip3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kʰ]<r>ap/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰa/, /*kʰas/, /*kʰab/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	胠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qū
Middle Chinese	‹ khjæp ›
Old Chinese	/*[kʰ]<r>ap/
English	armpit; right wing of an army
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	胠	胠	胠
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	10682	10691	10701
Phonetic component	去	去	去
Rime group	魚	魚	盍
Rime subdivision	0	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	虚	㰦	怯
Old Chinese	/*kʰa/	/*kʰas/	/*kʰab/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

胠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. armpit
2. open
3. throw away

Readings

• On (unclassified): きょ (kyo), こ (ko), きょう (kyō), こう (kō)
• Kun: わきのした (wakinoshita)

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Korean

Hanja

胠 • (geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune–Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

1. armpit