枯槁

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Chinese

withered; dried up dry; rotten (as wood)
simp. and trad.
(枯槁)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (23) (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter khu khawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰuo/ /kʰɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰuo/ /kʰɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰo/ /kʰɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰɔ/ /kʰawX/
Li
Rong
/kʰo/ /kʰɑuX/
Wang
Li
/kʰu/ /kʰɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰuo/ /kʰɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fu1 hou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ khu ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰˁa/
English withered, dried up

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 1/2 2/2
No. 4238 3731 3738
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰaː/ /*kaːwʔ/ /*kʰaːwʔ/
Notes

Adjective

枯槁

  1. withered; dried-up
  2. haggard; languid

Derived terms