諤

See also: 谔

諤 U+8AE4, 諤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AE4 ← 諣 [U+8AE3] CJK Unified Ideographs 諥 → [U+8AE5]

Translingual

Han character

諤 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜口口口尸 (YRRRS), four-corner 0662₇, composition ⿰訁咢)

1. honest speech, straightforward

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1170, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35713
• Dae Jaweon: page 1635, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3998, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8AE4

Chinese

trad.		諤
simp.		谔
alternative forms		讍 𡅡 𣤲 鄂 愕

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): è (e⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngok⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: è
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: è
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴
    • Yale: è
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eh
    • Palladius: э (e)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngok⁶
    • Yale: ngohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngog⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɔːk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: ngak

Rime
Character	諤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	唐 (103)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五各切
Baxter	ngak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋak̚/
Li Rong	/ŋɑk̚/
Wang Li	/ŋɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	è
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	諤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è
Middle Chinese	‹ ngak ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˁak/
English	speak frankly
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	諤
Reading #	1/1
No.	9451
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	咢
Old Chinese	/*ŋaːɡ/

Definitions

諤

1. (literary) honest speech; frank speech

Compounds

• 侃侃諤諤／侃侃谔谔
• 諤諤／谔谔 (è'è)
• 謇諤／謇谔
• 謇諤之風／謇谔之风
• 謇諤自負／謇谔自负
• 蹇諤之風／蹇谔之风

 

Japanese

Kanji

諤

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. speaking the truth

Readings

• On (unclassified): がく (gaku)

Korean

Hanja

諤 • (ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune–Reischauer ak, Yale ak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

諤: Hán Nôm readings: ngạc

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