軀

See also: 躯

Translingual

Han character

軀 (Kangxi radical 158, 身+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸口口 (HHSRR), four-corner 2121₆, composition ⿰身區)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1238, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38137
• Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3812, character 22
• Unihan data for U+8EC0

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Chinese

trad.		軀
simp.		躯

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
摳	*kʰoː, *kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	*kʰoː, *qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	*qoː, *qoːʔ
區	*qoː, *kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	*qoː, *qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	*qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧	*qoː, *qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	*kʰo, *kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰo) : semantic 身 (“body”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”) (STEDT). Congate with Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”) and Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 軀

1. human body

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Japanese

Shinjitai	躯
Kyūjitai	軀

Kanji

軀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 躯)

1. body

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku)
• Kun: むくろ (mukuro, 軀); からだ (karada, 軀)

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Korean

Hanja

軀 • (gu) (hangeul 구)

1. body