玃

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玃 U+7383, 玃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7383
← 玂
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 玄 →

Translingual

Han character

玃 (Kangxi radical 94, 犬+20, 23 strokes, cangjie input 大竹月山水 (KHBUE), four-corner 46247, composition ⿰犭矍)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 722, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20807
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1134, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1379, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7383

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 玃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
钁 *kʷaɡ
攫 *kʷaɡ
矍 *kʷaɡ
躩 *kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃 *kʷaɡ
貜 *kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏 *kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
戄 *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰 *ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷaɡ) : semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 矍 (OC *kʷaɡ).

Pronunciation

Definitions

玃

  1. (ancient) legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan
  2. (literary) monkeys
  3. Same as 攫 (jué).

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

玃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. large ape found in W. China

Readings

Korean

Hanja

玃 • (hwak) (hangeul 확, revised hwak, McCune–Reischauer hwak)

  1. 원숭이: ape
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