踝

踝 U+8E1D, 踝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E1D ← 踜 [U+8E1C] CJK Unified Ideographs 踞 → [U+8E1E]

Translingual

Han character

踝 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口一田木 (RMWD), four-corner 6619₄, composition ⿰𧾷果)

References

• KangXi: page 1228, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37641
• Dae Jaweon: page 1700, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3716, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8E1D

Chinese

simp. and trad.		踝
alternative forms		腂 髁

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
裸	*ɡ·roːlʔ
躶	*ɡ·roːlʔ
果	*kloːlʔ
菓	*kloːlʔ
猓	*kloːlʔ
輠	*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
裹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
蜾	*kloːlʔ
惈	*kloːlʔ
粿	*kloːlʔ
窠	*kʰloːl
稞	*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
課	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
髁	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
棵	*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
顆	*kʰloːlʔ
堁	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
敤	*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
夥	*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
婐	*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
踝	*ɡroːlʔ
祼	*ɡluːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡroːlʔ): semantic 𧾷 (“foot”) + phonetic 果 (OC *kloːlʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huái (huai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): waa⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huái
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huái
    • Wade–Giles: huai²
    • Yale: hwái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwai
    • Palladius: хуай (xuaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯aɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: waa⁵
    • Yale: wáh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: waa⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wa⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /waː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦˠuaX/

Rime
Character	踝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	麻 (99)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	胡瓦切
Baxter	hwaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦˠuaX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷᵚaX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwaɨX/
Li Rong	/ɣuaX/
Wang Li	/ɣwaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣwaX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huà
Expected Cantonese Reflex	waa6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-kˤ<r>o[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡroːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	踝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huà
Middle Chinese	‹ hwæX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-kˁ<r>o[r]ʔ/
English	ankle
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	踝
Reading #	1/1
No.	4794
Phonetic component	果
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	踝
Old Chinese	/*ɡroːlʔ/

Definitions

踝

1. ankle

Compounds

• 足踝 (zúhuái)
• 踝子骨 (huáizugǔ)

• 踝骨 (huáigǔ)

• 腳踝／脚踝 (jiǎohuái)

Japanese

Kanji

踝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: え (e)
• Kan-on: か (ka)^{←くわ (kwa, historical)}
• Kun: くるぶし (kurubushi, 踝)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
踝
くるぶし Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

From an adverbial form meaning "[turning] around", and 節 (fushi, “joint”). The fushi changes to bushi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) くる​ぶし [kùrúꜜbùshì] (Nakadaka – [2])
• (Tokyo) くるぶし [kùrúbúshí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ᵝɾɯ̟ᵝbɯ̟ᵝɕi]

Noun

踝(くるぶし) • (kurubushi) 

1. the ankle, or certain bones or bony prominences of the ankle, such as either of the two malleoli, or the talus

See also

• 足(あし)首(くび) (ashikubi)

Korean

Hanja

踝 • (gwa) (hangeul 과, revised gwa, McCune–Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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