觳觫

Chinese

		(measure); frightened	tremble with fear
trad. (觳觫)		觳	觫
simp. #(觳觫)		觳	觫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): húsù

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): huk⁶ cuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: húsù
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: húsù
    • Wade–Giles: hu²-su⁴
    • Yale: hú-sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwusuh
    • Palladius: хусу (xusu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵ su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: huk⁶ cuk¹
    • Yale: huhk chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: huk⁹ tsuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: hug⁶ cug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hʊk̚² t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/

Verb

觳觫

1. (literary) to tremble in fear

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
觳	觫
こく Hyōgaiji	そく Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Literary Chinese. From 孟子/梁惠王上.

Adjectival noun

觳(こく)觫(そく) • (kokusoku) ^†-tari (adnominal 觳(こく)觫(そく)とした (kokusoku to shita) or 觳(こく)觫(そく)たる (kokusoku taru), adverbial 觳(こく)觫(そく)と (kokusoku to) or 觳(こく)觫(そく)として (kokusoku to shite))

1. fearing for one's life