笱

笱 U+7B31, 笱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B31 ← 笰 [U+7B30] CJK Unified Ideographs 笲 → [U+7B32]

Translingual

Han character

笱 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹心口 (HPR), four-corner 8862₇, composition ⿱𥫗句)

1. a bamboo trap for fishing at the opening of a weir

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 881, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25948
• Dae Jaweon: page 1309, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2958, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7B31

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Chinese

trad.		笱
simp. #		笱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 笱
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǒu (gou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǒu
    • Wade–Giles: kou³
    • Yale: gǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goou
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gau²
    • Yale: gáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwX

Rime
Character	笱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古厚切
Baxter	kuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəuX/
Pan Wuyun	/kəuX/
Shao Rongfen	/kəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwX/
Li Rong	/kuX/
Wang Li	/kəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	笱
Reading #	1/1
No.	7072
Phonetic component	句
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	苟
Old Chinese	/*koːʔ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

笱

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. basket trap for fish
2. placed in the opening of a weir

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、く (ku)

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Korean

Hanja

笱 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

1. a weir made of willow or bamboo
2. a fish trap