顧

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 雇 + semantic 頁

Han character

顧 (radical 181 頁+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 竹土一月金 (HGMBC), 戈土一月金 (IGMBC), four-corner 3128₆)

1. look back
2. look at
3. look after
4. a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1409, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43689
• Dae Jaweon: page 1928, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4392, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9867

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Cantonese

Hanzi

顧 (simplified 顾, Yale gu3)

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Japanese

Kanji

顧 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: こ (ko)
• Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru)

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Korean

Hanja

顧 (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

顧 (simplified 顾, pinyin gù (gu4), Wade-Giles ku⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

顧 (cố)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 16:11