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See also:
U+8173, 腳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8173

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月金口中 (BCRL), four-corner 77220, composition (GK) or (HT))

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 989, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29712
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1441, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2098, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8173

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaɡ) : semantic (meat, body) + phonetic (OC *kaɡ, *kʰaɡ) – part of the body, the foot or leg.

Etymology 1

trad. /
simp.

Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007). Unrelated to Min .

Pronunciation


Note:
  • jiǎo - vernacular;
  • jué - literary (“role”).
Note:
  • kioh - vernacular (“character”);
  • kiok - literary.
Note:
  • giêh4/gioh4/giog4 - vernacular (giêh4 - Chaozhou);
  • gag4 - literary.
Note: 3cian - erhua.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/kiak̚/
Wang
Li
/kĭak̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ki̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jue
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
goek3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjak ›
Old
Chinese
/*ak/
English leg, foot

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
No. 10737
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kaɡ/

Definitions

  1. (anatomy) foot (Classifier: m c;  m c;  c)
  2. base; leg; foundation
      ―  qiángjiǎo  ―  base of wall
      ―  jiǎo  ―  bottom of trousers
    [Cantonese]  ―  toi4-2 goek3   ―  table leg
  3. Alternative form of (jué, role; part; character)
  4. (Cantonese) person who joins an activity
    [Cantonese]  ―  faan6 goek3   ―  person who dines out with one
    打牌打牌 [Cantonese]  ―  daa2 paai4-2 m4 gau3 goek3   ―  to not have enough people for playing mahjong
Synonyms
Usage notes

In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, (jiǎo) refers to the leg and foot collectively.

See also

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“(Min) leg; foot; lower limb; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 다리 (dari gak))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: cước, cuốc

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