矍

矍 U+77CD, 矍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77CD ← 矌 [U+77CC] CJK Unified Ideographs 矎 → [U+77CE]

Translingual

Han character

矍 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月山人土水 (BUOGE), four-corner 6640₇, composition ⿱瞿又 or ⿱䀠隻)

1. look about in fright or alarm

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 820, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23792
• Dae Jaweon: page 1232, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2520, character 13
• Unihan data for U+77CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		矍

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	*kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	*kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	*kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
戄	*ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic and semantic 瞿 (OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa, “started; vigilant”) + 又 (a hand catching a bird 隹).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fok³, gwok³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiok / kiak

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Yale: jywé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fok³, gwok³
    • Yale: fok, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fok⁸, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: fog³, guog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiok
    • Tâi-lô: kiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiak
    • Tâi-lô: kiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiak̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: kjwak

Rime
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	藥 (108)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居縛切
Baxter	kjwak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuak̚/
Li Rong	/kiuak̚/
Wang Li	/kĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)ak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwak ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)ak/
English	anxious look
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	矍
Reading #	1/1
No.	7265
Phonetic component	矍
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	玃
Old Chinese	/*kʷaɡ/

Definitions

矍

1. look about in fright or alarm

Compounds

• 矍然
• 矍矍
• 矍鑠／矍铄 (juéshuò)

 

References

• “矍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

矍

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. surprise and confusion

Readings

• Go-on: かく (kaku)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゃく (kyaku)^{←きやく (kyaku, historical)←くゐやく (kwyaku, ancient)}
• Kun: おどろき (odoroki)

Korean

Hanja

矍 (eum 확 (hwak))

1. look about in fright or alarm