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Translingual
Han character
祼 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火田木 (IFWD), four-corner 36294, composition ⿰礻果)
- sacrificial ceremony of pouring water to irrigate a field
- to pour out a libation
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 844, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24738
- Dae Jaweon: page 1264, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2402, character 3
- Unihan data for U+797C
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 裸
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*ɡ·roːlʔ
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| 躶
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*ɡ·roːlʔ
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| 果
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*kloːlʔ
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| 菓
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*kloːlʔ
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| 猓
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*kloːlʔ
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| 輠
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*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
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| 裹
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*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
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| 蜾
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*kloːlʔ
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| 惈
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*kloːlʔ
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| 粿
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*kloːlʔ
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| 窠
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*kʰloːl
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| 稞
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*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
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| 課
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*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
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| 髁
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*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
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| 棵
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*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
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| 顆
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*kʰloːlʔ
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| 堁
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*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
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| 敤
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*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
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| 夥
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*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
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| 婐
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*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
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| 踝
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*ɡroːlʔ
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| 祼
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*ɡluːlʔ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡluːlʔ) : semantic 示 (“altar; sacrifice; deity”) + phonetic 果 (OC *kloːlʔ). In early writing, the form was more readily seen as ideogrammic (會意 / 会意) , showing components resembling 酉 (“libation container”) or 畐 (“libation container”) variously combined with radicals depicting the hand.
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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祼
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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guàn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ kwanH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ˁor(ʔ)-s/
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| English
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pour out libation
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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祼
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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4799
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Phonetic
component
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果
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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貫
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Old
Chinese
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/*ɡluːlʔ/
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Definitions
祼
- (historical, religion) to pour libation; to libate
References
- “祼”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “祼”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 81.
Japanese
Kanji
祼
(Hyōgai kanji)
- libation
Readings
Korean
Hanja
祼 (eum 관 (gwan))
- sacrificial ceremony of pouring water to irrigate the field
