咼

Translingual

Han character

咼 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月月口 (BBR), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿵冎口)

Derived characters

堝 (埚), 喎 (㖞), 猧, 渦 (涡), 媧 (娲), 𢝸, 𢰸, 楇, 腡 (脶), 煱 (㶽), 禍 (祸), 碢, 蝸 (蜗), 緺, 踻, 諣 (𫍩), 鍋 (锅), 騧 (䯄), 䯞, 剮 (剐), 旤, 歄, 䫚, 卨, 萵 (莴), 窩 (窝), 䈑, 㢐, 瘑, 過 (过)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3573
Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 616, character 1
Unihan data for U+54BC

Chinese

trad.		咼
simp.		呙^*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 咼
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	ɡ·roːl, kʷroːl
過	kloːl, kloːls
渦	kloːl, qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	kloːl, ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	koːl, kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	kloːl, qloːl
鐹	kloːlʔ, kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	kʰloːl, kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	kroːl, kʷroːl
媧	kroːl, kʷroːl
騧	kroːl, kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	qʰroːls, qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰʷroːl) : phonetic 冎 (OC *kroːlʔ) + semantic 口.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wāi, kuāi (wai¹, kuai¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄞ, ㄎㄨㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping): waa¹ / kwaa¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wai
  - Wade–Giles: wai¹
  - Yale: wāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uai
  - Palladius: вай (vaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kuāi
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kuai
  - Wade–Giles: kʻuai¹
  - Yale: kwāi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuai
  - Palladius: куай (kuaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: waa¹ / kwaa¹
  - Yale: wā / kwā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: waa¹ / kwaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: wa¹ / kua¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː⁵⁵/, /kʷʰaː⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: khwea

Rime
Character	咼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	佳 (32)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	苦緺切
Baxter	khwea
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠuɛ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷᵚæ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuæi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwaɨj/
Li Rong	/kʰuɛ/
Wang Li	/kʰwai/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰwai/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faai¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷroːl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咼
Reading #	1/1
No.	4397
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	咼
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷroːl/

Definitions

咼

slanting

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guō (guo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guō
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guo
  - Wade–Giles: kuo¹
  - Yale: gwō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guo
  - Palladius: го (go)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwo¹
  - Yale: gwō
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guo¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵/

Definitions

咼

a surname

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wō (wo¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wō
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wo
  - Wade–Giles: wo¹
  - Yale: wō
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uo
  - Palladius: во (vo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵⁵/

Definitions

咼

name of an ancient state

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǒ (wo³)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǒ
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǒ
  - Wade–Giles: wo³
  - Yale: wǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woo
  - Palladius: во (vo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ²¹⁴/

Definitions

咼

Only used in 咼墮／呙堕.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hé (he²)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hé
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hé
  - Wade–Giles: ho²
  - Yale: hé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
  - Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/

Definitions

咼

Only used in 咼氏／呙氏.

Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of 咼 – see 剮 (“to cut flesh off from bone; lingchi; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 剮).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00327
“咼”, 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

咼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: か (ka)、かい (kai)
Kun: ゆがむ (yugamu, 咼む)、よこしま (yokoshima)

Korean

Hanja

咼 • (gwae) (hangeul 괘, revised gwae, McCune–Reischauer kwae, Yale kway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咼: Hán Nôm readings: òa/oà, oa, ùa, ua, uả

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