遘
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Translingual
Han character
遘 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿廿月 (YTTB), four-corner 35305, composition ⿺辶冓)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1262, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39031
- Dae Jaweon: page 1756, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3869, character 5
- Unihan data for U+9058
Chinese
Glyph origin
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| Bronze inscriptions | Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːs, *koːs) : semantic 辶 (“walk”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).
Etymology 1
| trad. | 遘 | |
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| simp. # | 遘 | |
| alternative forms | 冓 姤 | |
Compare Proto-Tibeto-Burman *gow ~ *gaw, whence Jingpho gau (kau³³, “cross over”), Burmese ကူး (ku:, “to cross over”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007).
In Chinese, cognate with 覯 (OC *koːs, “to come across”), 姤 (OC *koːs, “gou (hexagram of the I Ching)”). Possible allofams in Chinese include 冓 (OC *koːs) in 中冓 (OC *tuŋ koː, “inner chamber”) and 購 (OC *koːs, “to award”). Compare 遇 (OC *ŋos, “to meet”).
Pronunciation
Definitions
遘
- † to meet; to encounter
- 史乃冊，祝曰：「惟爾元孫某，遘厲虐疾。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Book of Documents, circa 4th – 3rd century BCE
- Shǐ nǎi cè, zhù yuē: “Wéi ěr yuán sūn Mǒu, gòu lì nüè jí.”
- The (grand) historiographer had written on tablets his prayer, which was to this effect: 'A. B., your great descendant, is suffering from a severe and violent disease'
史乃册，祝曰：「惟尔元孙某，遘厉虐疾。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- Alternative form of 構／构 (gòu, “to create; to form”)
Etymology 2
| trad. | 遘 | |
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| simp. # | 遘 | |
Pronunciation
Definitions
遘
Japanese
Kanji
遘
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
遘 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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