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告

See also: 吿 and 吉
告 U+544A, 告
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-544A
← 呉
[U+5449] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呋 →
[U+544B]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

告 (radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹土口 (HGR), four-corner 24601, composition ⿱⺧口)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 589, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+544A

ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
造 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥 *skʰuːɡs
艁 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙 *skʰuːɡs
告 *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
誥 *kuːɡs
郜 *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰 *kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠 *kʰuːɡs
浩 *ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧 *ɡuːʔ
皓 *ɡuːʔ
窖 *kruːɡs
簉 *skʰruɡs
梏 *kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞 *kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿 *kuːɡ
鵠 *kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷 *kʰuːɡ
焅 *kʰuːɡ
嚳 *kʰuːɡ
頶 *ɡuːɡ

Etymology 1Edit

trad. 告/吿
simp. 告

Cognate with Thai กล่าว (glàao, “to say; to declare”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1Edit

Note: go3 - “to sue”.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 告
Mandarin Beijing /kɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /kau⁵³/
Tianjin /kɑu⁵³/
Jinan /kɔ²¹/
Qingdao /kɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kau³¹²/
Xi'an /kau⁴⁴/
Xining /kɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /kɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /kɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /kɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /kau³⁵/
Chengdu /kau¹³/
Guiyang /kao²¹³/
Kunming /kɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /kɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /kɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /kɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /kæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /kɜ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /kə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kɑu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kau⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kou³³/
Nanning /ku³³/
Hong Kong /kou³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ko²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɔ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kau³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau²¹³/
/ko²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kau³⁵/
/ko³⁵/
Rime
Character 告
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古到切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawH/
Li
Rong 		/kɑuH/
Wang
Li 		/kɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gào
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kawH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˤuk-s/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 1/2
No. 3805
Phonetic
component 		告
Rime
group 		奧
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		誥
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡs/
DefinitionsEdit

告

  1. to report to
  2. to tell; to inform
  3. to request
  4. to announce; to declare
  5. to expose; to denounce
  6. to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges
  7. (Min Dong) to call

Pronunciation 2Edit

Rime
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kok̚/
Wang
Li 		/kuok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kowk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˤuk/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 2/2
No. 3818
Phonetic
component 		吿
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		梏
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡ/
DefinitionsEdit

告

  1. Only used in 忠告 (zhōnggào).

Pronunciation 3Edit

Rime
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kok̚/
Wang
Li 		/kuok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kowk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˤuk/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 2/2
No. 3818
Phonetic
component 		吿
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		梏
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡ/
DefinitionsEdit

告

  1. Only used in 告朔.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 告

Etymology 2Edit

trad. 告/吿
simp. 告
variant forms 校
較／较

From 校 (MC kˠauH, “to check; to compare”) (Yang, 2010).

PronunciationEdit

DefinitionsEdit

告

  1. (Southwestern Mandarin) to try; to check out

JapaneseEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

告 • (go, gok) (hangeul 고, 곡, revised go, gok, McCune–Reischauer ko, kok, Yale ko, kok)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

告 (cáo, cáu, kiếu)

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