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Translingual
Han character
覯 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月山山 (TBBUU), four-corner 56510, composition ⿰冓見)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1136, character 32
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34937
- Dae Jaweon: page 1604, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3672, character 5
- Unihan data for U+89AF
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 溝
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*koː
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| 篝
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*koː
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| 鞲
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*koː
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| 韝
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*koː, *kʰoː
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| 褠
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*koː
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| 冓
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*koː, *koːs
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| 構
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*koːs
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| 購
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*koːs
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| 媾
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*koːs
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| 覯
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*koːs
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| 遘
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*koːs, *koːs
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| 煹
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*koːs
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| 搆
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*koːs
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| 講
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*kroːŋʔ
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| 耩
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*kroːŋʔ
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| 傋
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*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
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| 斠
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*kroːɡ
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Etymology
Cognate with 遘 (OC *koːs, *koːs, “to meet”).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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覯
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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gòu
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ kuwH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*kˁ(r)o-s/
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| English
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come across, meet with
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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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覯
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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4194
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Phonetic
component
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冓
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Rime
group
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侯
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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遘
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Old
Chinese
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/*koːs/
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Definitions
覯
- (literary) to see; to meet; to encounter
- † Alternative form of 構／构 (gòu, “to make; to form”)
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
覯
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
覯 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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