頊

See also: 顼

Translingual

Han character

頊 (Kangxi radical 181, 頁+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 一土一月金 (MGMBC), four-corner 1118₆, composition ⿰𤣩頁)

1. grieved
2. anxious

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1400, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43357
• Dae Jaweon: page 1916, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4359, character 6
• Unihan data for U+980A

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Chinese

trad.		頊
simp.		顼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
珏	*kŋroːɡ
砡	*ŋuɡ
匤	*kʰoɡ
玉	*ŋoɡ
鳿	*ŋoɡ
頊	*ŋoɡ, *hŋoɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xū (xu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): juk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xū
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syu
    • Wade–Giles: hsü¹
    • Yale: syū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiu
    • Palladius: сюй (sjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: juk¹
    • Yale: yūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: juk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jʊk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjowk, xjowk

Rime
Character	頊	頊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	魚欲切	許玉切
Baxter	ngjowk	xjowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɨok̚/	/hɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiok̚/	/hiok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiok̚/	/xiok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuawk̚/	/huawk̚/
Li Rong	/ŋiok̚/	/xiok̚/
Wang Li	/ŋĭwok̚/	/xĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wok̚/	/xi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	juk6	huk1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)ok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋoɡ/, /*hŋoɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ xjowk ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)ok/
English	disconcerted
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	頊	頊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15973	15974
Phonetic component	玉	玉
Rime group	屋	屋
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	玉	旭
Old Chinese	/*ŋoɡ/	/*hŋoɡ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

頊

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こく (koku); ごく (goku)
• Kan-on: きょく (kyoku); ぎょく (gyoku)
• Kun: ただしい (tadashii, 頊しい)
• Nanori: たま (tama)

Compounds

• 顓頊(せんぎょく) (Sengyoku)

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Korean

Hanja

頊 • (uk) (hangeul 욱, revised uk, McCune–Reischauer uk, Yale wuk)

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