辜

辜 U+8F9C, 辜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F9C ← 辛 [U+8F9B] CJK Unified Ideographs 辝 → [U+8F9D]

Translingual

Han character

辜 (radical 160 辛+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十口卜廿十 (JRYTJ), four-corner 4040₁, composition ⿱古辛)

1. crime, criminal offense

References

• KangXi: page 1250, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38636
• Dae Jaweon: page 1730, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4036, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8F9C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		辜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辜
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
箇	*kaːls
個	*kaːls
居	*kɯ, *kas
橭	*kaː, *kʰaː
嫴	*kaː
姑	*kaː
辜	*kaː
酤	*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄	*kaː
鴣	*kaː
沽	*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬	*kaː, *kaːʔ
古	*kaːʔ
罟	*kaːʔ
估	*kaːʔ
鈷	*kaːʔ
詁	*kaːʔ
牯	*kaːʔ
故	*kaːs
固	*kaːs
稒	*kaːɡs
痼	*kaːɡs
錮	*kaːɡs
鯝	*kaːɡs
棝	*kaːɡs
凅	*kaːɡs
枯	*kʰaː
軲	*kʰaː
跍	*kʰaː
骷	*kʰaː
苦	*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫	*qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬	*ɡaː
瑚	*ɡaː
湖	*ɡaː
鶘	*ɡaː
猢	*ɡaː
醐	*ɡaː
糊	*ɡaː
箶	*ɡaː
蝴	*ɡaː
胡	*ɡaː
瓳	*ɡaː
怙	*ɡaːʔ
祜	*ɡaːʔ
岵	*ɡaːʔ
婟	*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛	*ɡaːʔ
据	*ka
裾	*ka
琚	*ka
椐	*ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋	*ka
蜛	*ka
崌	*ka
涺	*ka
腒	*ka, *ɡa
鋸	*kas
倨	*kas
踞	*kas
涸	*ɡaːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gū (gu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ko͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: gū
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: ku¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gu
    • IPA ^(key): /ku⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gu¹
    • Yale: gū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
    • Tâi-lô: koo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kof
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kɔ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔ⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kuo/▼

Rime
Character	辜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古胡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuo/
Pan Wuyun	/kuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ko/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔ/
Li Rong	/ko/
Wang Li	/ku/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gū

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	辜
Reading #	1/1
No.	4213
Phonetic component	古
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	孤
Old Chinese	/*kaː/

Definitions

辜

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Compounds

• 不辜
• 保辜限
• 平白無辜／平白无辜
• 戕害不辜
• 死有餘辜／死有余辜

• 波及無辜／波及无辜
• 濫殺無辜／滥杀无辜 (lànshā wúgū)
• 無辜／无辜 (wúgū)
• 辜人

• 辜恩背義／辜恩背义
• 辜恩負義／辜恩负义
• 辜汪會談／辜汪会谈
• 辜負／辜负 (gūfù)

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Japanese

Kanji

辜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: つみ (tsumi)

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Korean

Hanja

辜 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: cô

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