See also: and 𠮷
U+53E4, 古
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E4

[U+53E3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+53E5]

Translingual Edit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han character Edit

(Kangxi radical 30, +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十口 (JR), four-corner 40600, composition )

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №53

Derived characters Edit

References Edit

  • KangXi: page 171, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3233
  • Dae Jaweon: page 380, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 568, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+53E4

Chinese Edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠖠
Cantonese "story"
 
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Glyph origin Edit

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
         

Unknown.

Fang (1982) finds evidence for the 十 component originally being a depiction of a piece of food and the character originally being a depiction of someone spitting out a piece of food. Thus, Fang argues this character is the original form of ().

Shuowen: Ideogrammic compound (會意): (ten) + (mouth).

Etymology Edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ga (old). Cognate with (OC *kaːs, “old things; former; dead”) and Tibetan རྒ (rga, to be old; aged).

Pronunciation 1 Edit


Note: kū - in 古田 (Kŭ-chèng).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɔX/
Li
Rong
/koX/
Wang
Li
/kuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gu2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁaʔ/
English ancient

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4219
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaːʔ/

Definitions Edit

  1. the past; ancient times
      ―  jīn  ―  ancient and modern times
  2. old; ancient
  3. classic; old-styled
  4. simple; unaffected; unsophisticated
  5. things in the past; antiquities; history
  6. (Cantonese, Hakka, Min Nan) story (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  gong2 gu2 [Jyutping]  ―  to tell a story
  7. Short for 古體詩古体诗 (gǔtǐshī, “ancient-style poem”).
  8. a surname
    [Cantonese]  ―  gu2 tin1 lok6 [Jyutping]  ―  Louis Koo Tin-lok (Hong Kong actor)

Compounds Edit

Descendants Edit

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (ko)
  • Korean: 고(古) (go)
  • Vietnamese: cổ ()

Others:

  • Vietnamese:

Pronunciation 2 Edit


Definitions Edit

  1. Alternative form of ()
  2. Alternative form of ()

Pronunciation 3 Edit


Definitions Edit

  1. Only used in 古成.

References Edit

Japanese Edit

Kanji Edit

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings Edit

Compounds Edit

Etymology Edit

Kanji in this term
いにしえ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
往にしへ
去にしへ

/inisipe1/ > /inisiɸe/ > /inisiwe/ > /inisie/. Literally "that which has passed". From the verb 往ぬ (inu, pass) in adverbial form ini, the past marker (ki) in attributive form si, and (pe, time, direction).

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

(いにしえ) (inishieいにしへ (inisife)?

  1. the past
  2. ancient times

References Edit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean Edit

Hanja Edit

(eumhun (yet go))

  1. Hanja form? of (old; ancient).

Compounds Edit

Vietnamese Edit

Han character Edit

: Hán Việt readings: cổ ((công)(thổ)(thiết))[1][2][3][4][5]
: Nôm readings: cổ[1][2][4][5][6], cỗ[2][3][7][4][6], của[1][2], [1], cỏ[1], kẻ[3]

  1. chữ Hán form of cổ (ancient; old).
  2. Nôm form of cổ (neck).

Compounds Edit

References Edit