穀雨

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See also: 谷雨

Chinese

grain; corn rain
trad. (穀雨) 穀 雨
simp. (谷雨) 谷 雨
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 穀 雨
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 屋 (3) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 古禄切 王矩切
Baxter kuwk hjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuk̚/ /ɦɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kuk̚/ /ɦioX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuk̚/ /ɣioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəwk̚/ /ɦuə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/kuk̚/ /ɣioX/
Wang
Li 		/kuk̚/ /ɣĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kuk̚/ /i̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gu yǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		guk1 jyu5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 穀 雨
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gǔ yǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kuwk › ‹ hjuX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁok/ /*C.ɢʷ(r)aʔ/
English grain rain

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 穀 雨
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 7423 15952
Phonetic
component 		殻 雨
Rime
group 		屋 魚
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		穀 羽
Old
Chinese 		/*kloːɡ/ /*ɢʷaʔ/

Proper noun

穀雨

  1. Guyu (one of the solar terms)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (穀雨):
  • → Japanese: 穀雨(こくう) (kokuu)
  • → Korean: 곡우(穀雨) (gogu)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
穀 雨
こく
Grade: 6 		う
Grade: 1
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
穀雨 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from Middle Chinese 穀雨 (MC kuwk hjuX).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

穀(こく)雨(う) • (Kokuu) 

  1. the sixth solar term

See also


References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
穀雨

Noun

穀雨 • (gogu) (hangeul 곡우)

  1. hanja form? of 곡우

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
穀雨

Proper noun

穀雨

  1. chữ Hán form of Cốc vũ (“lit. "grain rain"; one of the solar terms”).
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