郝

郝 U+90DD, 郝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90DD ← 郜 [U+90DC] CJK Unified Ideographs 郞 → [U+90DE]

Translingual

Han character

郝 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土金弓中 (GCNL), four-corner 4732₇, composition ⿰赤阝)

Derived characters

• 𭉞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1272, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39430
• Dae Jaweon: page 1770, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3771, character 15
• Unihan data for U+90DD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		郝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
浾	*sqraː
嚇	*qʰraːɡs, *qʰraːɡ
赦	*hljaɡs
郝	*qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ
赫	*qʰraːɡ
爀	*qʰraːɡ
赤	*kʰljaɡ
烾	*kʰljaɡ
螫	*qʰjaːɡ
赥	*qʰleːɡ
捇	*qʰʷreːɡ
焃	*qʰʷreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰljaɡ, *kʰljaɡ, *hljaɡ) : phonetic 赤 (OC *kʰljaɡ) + semantic 邑 (“city, town”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎo (hao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kok³, gok³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎo
    • Wade–Giles: hao³
    • Yale: hǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hao
    • Palladius: хао (xao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kok³, gok³
    • Yale: kok, gok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kok⁸, gok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kog³, gog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔːk̚³/, /kɔːk̚³/

Note: gok3 - variant.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hok
    • Tâi-lô: hok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: xak, syek, tsyhek

Rime
Character	郝	郝	郝
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	書 (26)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	唐 (103)	清 (123)	清 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III	III
Fanqie	呵各切	施隻切	昌石切
Baxter	xak	syek	tsyhek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɑk̚/	/ɕiᴇk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hɑk̚/	/ɕiɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xɑk̚/	/ɕiæk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hak̚/	/ɕiajk̚/	/cʰiajk̚/
Li Rong	/xɑk̚/	/ɕiɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/
Wang Li	/xɑk̚/	/ɕĭɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xɑk̚/	/ɕi̯ɛk̚/	/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	he	shi	chi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hok3	sik1	cik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰljaɡ/, /*kʰljaɡ/, /*hljaɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	郝	郝	郝
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	1473	1479	1480
Phonetic component	赤	赤	赤
Rime group	鐸	鐸	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	𦞦	尺	釋
Old Chinese	/*qʰljaɡ/	/*kʰljaɡ/	/*hljaɡ/

Definitions

郝

1. a surname

   郝柏村  ―  Hǎo Bócūn  ―  Hau Pei-tsun

2. (historical) a place in modern-day Shanxi province

Compounds

• 郝店 (Hǎodiàn)
• 郝穴 (Hǎoxué, “Haoxue”)
• 鄢郝 (Yānhǎo)

 

Descendants

• → English: Hao

Japanese

Kanji

郝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. a surname
2. a place in modern-day Shanxi province

Readings

• On (unclassified): かく (kaku); せき (seki); しゃく (shaku)

Korean

Hanja

郝 • (hak) (hangeul 학)

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Vietnamese

Han character

郝: Hán Nôm readings: hác

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