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渠

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

ChineseEdit

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simp. and trad.
 渠

PronunciationEdit

Middle Chinese pronunciation (渠, reconstructed)
Character (渠), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 群 (30)
Final: 魚
Division: III

Openness: Open
Tone: Level (Ø)

 Fanqie: 強魚切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/ɡɨʌ/ /gi̯wo/ /ɡiɔ/ /ɡiɔ/ /gɨə̆/ /ɡĭo/ /ɡiɔ/
Old Chinese pronunciation (渠, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
渠 qú ‹ gjo › /*[ɡ](r)a/ 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 No. Phonetic
component		 Rime
group		 Rime
subdivision		 Corresponding
MC rime		 Old Chinese Notes
渠 7042 巨 魚 0 /*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 = Drainage Services

Proper nounEdit

渠

  1. Kui, a Chinese surname

PronounEdit

  1. 3rd person pronoun; he, she, it
    問渠哪得清如許 = ask (someone) why it (the pond) can be so clean like that

SynonymsEdit

  • (3rd person pronoun): 佢

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

渠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

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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