媾

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓

Han character

媾 (radical 38 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 4545₇, composition ⿰女冓)

1. marry
2. be on friendly terms with

References

• KangXi: page 268, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1070, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5ABE

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Cantonese

Hanzi

媾 (Yale gau3)

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Japanese

Kanji

媾

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: よしみ (yoshimi)

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Korean

Hanja

媾 (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

媾 (pinyin gòu (gou4), Wade-Giles kou⁴)

Last modified on 18 August 2012, at 13:01