渠

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

渠 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水尸木 (ESD), four-corner 3190₄, composition ⿱洰木)

1. ditch, canal, channel, gutter

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 633, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17764
• Dae Jaweon: page 1040, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1645, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6E20

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		渠

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qú (qu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: keoi⁴
    • Yale: kèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨʌ/▼

Rime
Character	渠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	強魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡiɔ/
Wang Li	/ɡĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ](r)a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡa/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	渠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qú
Middle Chinese	‹ gjo ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ](r)a/
English	canal
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	渠
Reading #	1/1
No.	7042
Phonetic component	巨
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ɡa/

NounEdit

渠

1. a passage that water or other liquids may flow along, and it is made by people: channel, ditch, canal, drain

   渠務 / 渠务  ―  qúwù  ―  drainage services

Proper nounEdit

渠

1. A surname​.

PronounEdit

渠

1. (literary) third person pronoun; he, she, it

   問渠哪得清如許，為有源頭活水來。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]

   问渠哪得清如许，为有源头活水来。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 朱熹, 觀書有感

   Wèn qú nǎ dé qīng rú xǔ, wèi yǒu yuántóu huóshuǐ lái. [Pinyin]

   [I want to] ask it [the pond] why it can be so clear. It is because running water continuously flows in.

SynonymsEdit

Dialectal synonyms of 他 (“he”)
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical	Classical	伊、彼、其、渠、斯、此
Mandarin	Beijing	他、怹
	Taiwan	他
	Jinan	他
	Xi'an	他
	Wuhan	他、他家
	Chengdu	他
	Yangzhou	他
	Hefei	他
Cantonese	Guangzhou	佢
	Hong Kong	佢
	Taishan	佢
	Yangjiang	佢
Gan	Nanchang	佢
Hakka	Meixian	佢
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	佢
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	佢
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	佢
	Dongshi (Dabu)	佢
	Taiwanese Raoping	佢
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	佢
Jin	Taiyuan	他
Min Bei	Jian'ou	佢
Min Dong	Fuzhou	伊
Min Nan	Xiamen	伊
	Taipei	伊
	Chaozhou	伊
Wu	Shanghai	伊
	Suzhou	俚、俚倷、唔倷
	Wenzhou	佢
Xiang	Changsha	他
	Shuangfeng	他

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

渠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On: きょ (kyo)
• Kun: みぞ (mizo), かれ (kare), なんぞ (nanzo)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

渠 • ‎(geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

渠 (cừ, gừa, khờ)

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