覯

See also: 觏

覯 U+89AF, 覯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89AF ← 覮 [U+89AE] CJK Unified Ideographs 覰 → [U+89B0]

Translingual

Han character

覯 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月山山 (TBBUU), four-corner 5651₀, composition ⿰冓見)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1136, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1604, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3672, character 5
• Unihan data for U+89AF

Chinese

trad.		覯
simp.		觏

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	*koː, *kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	*koː, *koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	*koːs, *koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Etymology

Cognate with 遘 (OC *koːs, *koːs, “to meet”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau³, gau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
    • Wade–Giles: kou⁴
    • Yale: gòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau³, gau³
    • Yale: kau, gau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau³, gau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: keo³, geo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯³³/, /kɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwH

Rime
Character	覯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古候切
Baxter	kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwH/
Li Rong	/kuH/
Wang Li	/kəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	覯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ(r)o-s/
English	come across, meet with
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	覯
Reading #	1/1
No.	4194
Phonetic component	冓
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːs/

Definitions

覯

1. (literary) to see; to meet; to encounter
2. ^† Alternative form of 構／构 (gòu, “to make; to form”)

Compounds

• 罕覯／罕觏 (hǎngòu)
• 覯止／觏止
• 覯閔／觏闵 (gòumǐn)

 

References

• “覯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

覯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: あう (au)

Korean

Hanja

覯 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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