靠

靠 U+9760, 靠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9760 ← 靟 [U+975F] CJK Unified Ideographs 靡 → [U+9761]

Translingual

Han character

靠 (radical 175 非+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹土口中卜 (HGRLY), four-corner 2411₁, composition ⿱告非)

References

• KangXi: page 1382, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42604
• Dae Jaweon: page 1896, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4087, character 17
• Unihan data for U+9760

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		靠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
造	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥	*skʰuːɡs
艁	*skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙	*skʰuːɡs
告	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
誥	*kuːɡs
郜	*kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰	*kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠	*kʰuːɡs
浩	*ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧	*ɡuːʔ
皓	*ɡuːʔ
窖	*kruːɡs
簉	*skʰruɡs
梏	*kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞	*kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿	*kuːɡ
鵠	*kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷	*kʰuːɡ
焅	*kʰuːɡ
嚳	*kʰuːɡ
頶	*ɡuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʰuːɡs): phonetic 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ) + semantic 非.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kào (kao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kaau³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kho
• Min Dong (BUC): kó̤
• Min Nan (POJ): khò͘ / khò / khòa
• Wu (Wiktionary): khau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kào
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'ao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kaw
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kaau³
    • Yale: kaau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kaau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kao³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɑːu̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kho
    • Hakka Romanization System: ko
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ko⁴
    • IPA: /kʰo⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kó̤
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɔ²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò͘
    • Tâi-lô: khòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qox
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò
    • Tâi-lô: khò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoix
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɤ²¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰo²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòa
    • Tâi-lô: khuà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰua²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰua⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰua²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰua¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰua²¹/

Note: khòa - 沙可 is used in the Mainland.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: khau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰɑu^H/▼

Rime
Character	靠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦到切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰawH/
Li Rong	/kʰɑuH/
Wang Li	/kʰɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰuːɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	靠
Reading #	1/1
No.	3809
Phonetic component	告
Rime group	奧
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𩝝
Old Chinese	/*kʰuːɡs/

Definitions

靠

1. to lean on; to recline
2. to depend on; to rely on
3. to trust; to have confidence in
4. to come near to; to approach
5. to keep to (a certain side)
6. (euphemistic) Alternative form of 肏 (cào, “to fuck”).

Compounds

• 不可靠
• 依靠 (yīkào)
• 倚靠 (yǐkào)
• 偎妻靠婦／偎妻靠妇
• 停靠 (tíngkào)
• 六親無靠／六亲无靠
• 可靠 (kěkào)
• 央靠
• 奔靠
• 妥靠
• 打靠後／打靠后
• 投靠 (tóukào)
• 指靠 (zhǐkào)
• 挨靠

• 求靠
• 無依無靠／无依无靠
• 無靠無依／无靠无依
• 牢靠 (láokào)
• 終身有靠／终身有靠
• 賣身投靠／卖身投靠
• 靠不住
• 靠傍
• 靠墊／靠垫 (kàodiàn)
• 靠天
• 靠子
• 靠山 (kàoshān)
• 靠山吃山
• 靠岸

• 靠得住 (kàodezhù)
• 靠手
• 靠把
• 靠攏／靠拢 (kàolǒng)
• 靠旗
• 靠枕
• 靠背 (kàobèi)
• 靠胸貼肉／靠胸贴肉
• 靠行
• 靠身
• 靠近 (kàojìn)
• 靠邊／靠边 (kàobiān)
• 靠邊站／靠边站

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Japanese

Kanji

靠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: たがう (tagau), よる (yoru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

靠 (kháo, khéo)

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