聝

聝 U+805D, 聝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-805D ← 聜 [U+805C] CJK Unified Ideographs 聞 → [U+805E]

Translingual

Han character

聝 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸十戈口一 (SJIRM), four-corner 1345₀, composition ⿰耳或)

1. to cut the left ears of the slain

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 968, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29100
• Dae Jaweon: page 1418, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2790, character 13
• Unihan data for U+805D

Chinese

trad.		聝
simp. #		聝

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (或) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
幗	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂	*kʷɯːɡs
蔮	*kʷɯːɡs
國	*kʷɯːɡ
或	*ɡʷɯːɡ
惑	*ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮	*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾	*qʰʷrɯɡ
緎	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域	*ɢʷrɯɡ
罭	*ɢʷrɯɡ
棫	*ɡʷrɯɡ
琙	*ɡʷrɯɡ
魊	*ɡʷrɯɡ
馘	*kʷrɯːɡ
聝	*kʷrɯːɡ
膕	*kʷrɯːɡ
摑	*kʷrɯːɡ
漍	*kʷrɯːɡ
嘓	*kʷrɯːɡ
蟈	*kʷrɯːɡ
掝	*qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧	*qʷrɯɡ
稶	*qʷɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷrɯːɡ) : semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 或 (OC *ɡʷɯːɡ, “halberd; weapon”). Largely displaced by 馘 (OC *kʷrɯːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guó (guo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik¹, gwok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guó
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guó
    • Wade–Giles: kuo²
    • Yale: gwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gwo
    • Palladius: го (go)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwik¹, gwok³
    • Yale: gwīk, gwok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwik⁷, gwok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: guig¹, guog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪk̚⁵/, /kʷɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: kweak

Rime
Character	聝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	耕 (120)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古獲切
Baxter	kweak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠwɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/kuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/kwæk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwæk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwak1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷrɯːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	聝
Reading #	1/1
No.	5563
Phonetic component	或
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蟈
Old Chinese	/*kʷrɯːɡ/
Notes	同馘

Definitions

聝

1. Alternative form of 馘 (“to cut off the left ear of the enemy”)