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See also:
U+72CA, 狊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-72CA

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 94, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山戈大 (BUIK), four-corner 60433, composition )

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 708, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20320
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1121, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1338, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+72CA

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (32)
Final () (128) (128)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Baxter kwek xwek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kwek̚/ /hwek̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷek̚/ /hʷek̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɛk̚/ /xuɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwɛjk̚/ /hwɛjk̚/
Li
Rong
/kuek̚/ /xuek̚/
Wang
Li
/kiwek̚/ /xiwek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kiwek̚/ /xiwek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ju xu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwik1 hik1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwek ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʷˁek/
English

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 7034 7040
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
𥍟
Old
Chinese
/*kʷeːɡ/ /*qʰʷeːɡ/

Definitions

  1. (of a dog) to stare
  2. a bird spreading its wings
  3. a kind of ape