哭

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

哭 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈大 (RRIK), four-corner 6643₀, composition ⿱吅犬)

1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №25

Descendants

• 喪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 190, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3658
• Dae Jaweon: page 410, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 629, character 2
• Unihan data for U+54ED

Chinese

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• 哭

Glyph origin

In oracle bone inscriptions, ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 吅 (“loudly”) + person with long hair (Similar to 老 without the cane) – "cry; weep". The pictogram of the person with long hair corrupted into 犬. Evidence suggests 吅 could be an abbreviation of the sound component 咢 (OC *ŋaːɡ), making the character phono-semantic (形聲／形声) .

Shuowen Jiezi interprets it as a phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋ̊ʰoːɡ) : semantic 吅 (“to speak loudly”) + abbreviated phonetic 獄 (OC *ŋoɡ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kuːk (“to weep; to wail”); cognate with Mizo kûk (“to shriek”) (STEDT).

This seems to be an area word; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuk ~ kuuk ~ kuək ~ kək (“to call”), Proto-Austronesian *-kuk (“sound of a sob”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Definitions

哭

1. to weep; to cry; to wail

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: khóc (哭, 泣)

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to cry; to wail

Readings

• Go-on: こく (koku)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)
• Kun: なく (naku, 哭く)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 哭 (MC khuwk).

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

哭

Wikisource

哭 (eumhun 울 곡 (ul gok))

1. Hanja form^? of 곡 (“cry”).

Compounds

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

哭: Hán Nôm readings: khốc, khóc

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