See also:
U+80F3, 胳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-80F3

[U+80F2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+80F4]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

(Kangxi radical 130, +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹水口 (BHER), four-corner 77264, composition )

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 980, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29434
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1432, character 25
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2070, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+80F3

ChineseEdit

trad.
simp. #

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *klaːɡ): semantic (flesh) + phonetic (OC *klaːɡ).

EtymologyEdit

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak ~ *C-jak (arm; hand; wing). Sagart (1999) considers it to be a prefixed form of a root *lak, found unprefixed as (OC *ᵇlak, “armpit”) and with a loosely attached prefix as *ᵃkə-lak, preserved in some southern varieties, such as Cantonese 胳肋底 (gaak3 laak6-1 dai2), Min Dong 胳腋下 (gó̤k-lŏ̤k-â). In the new reconstruction by Baxter and Sagart (2014), the connection to (OC *[ɢ](r)Ak) is still implied (cf. Sagart, 2007), but the comparison to the forms in the southern varieties no longer holds (Hill, 2019). Zhang, Jacques and Lai (2019) compare it with Tibetan ལག (lag, arm), Japhug tɯ-jaʁ (arm) and suggest that the comparisons are more compatible with an Old Chinese reconstruction such as *klˁak.

Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) reconstructs the Old Chinese minimally as *kâk < *klak and posits an Austroasiatic origin, comparing it to Proto-Monic *knlak (popliteal space; armpit), Khmer ក្លៀក (kliək, armpit), both from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kʔik ~ *kʔiək ~ *kʔaik (armpit).

Pronunciation 1Edit


Note:
  • koh - vernacular;
  • kok - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kak̚/
Li
Rong
/kɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/kɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ge
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gok3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kak ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.q]ˁak/
English armpit

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. 3882
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klaːɡ/

DefinitionsEdit

  1. (anatomy) armpit
  2. (anatomy) arm
      ―  bo  ―  arm
      ―  bei  ―  arm

CompoundsEdit

Pronunciation 2Edit


DefinitionsEdit

  1. Only used in 胳肢 (gézhi, “to tickle”).

Pronunciation 3Edit


DefinitionsEdit

  1. Only used in 胳肢窩胳肢窝 (gāzhiwō).

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. armpit
  2. arms

ReadingsEdit

  • On (unclassified): かく (kaku); ぎゃく (gyaku)
  • Kun: わき (waki, )