辜

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gū (gu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹

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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
    • IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵/

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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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