郭公

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Chinese

		surname; outer city wall	just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
trad. (郭公)		郭	公
simp. ^#(郭公)		郭	公

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guōgōng

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwok³ gung¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guōgōng
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛㄍㄨㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guogong
  - Wade–Giles: kuo¹-kung¹
  - Yale: gwō-gūng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guogong
  - Palladius: гогун (gogun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gwok³ gung¹
  - Yale: gwok gūng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwok⁸ gung¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guog³ gung¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːk̚³ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: kwak kuwng

Rime
Character	郭	公
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	鐸 (104)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古博切	古紅切
Baxter	kwak	kuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwak̚/	/kəwŋ/
Li Rong	/kuɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Wang Li	/kuɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guo	gōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwok³	gung¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤak C.qˤoŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːɡ kloːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	郭	公	公
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guō	gōng	gōng
Middle Chinese	‹ kwak ›	‹ kuwng ›	‹ kuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁak/	/*C.qˁoŋ/	/*C.qˁoŋ/
English	outer wall	impartial, just; public	father; prince
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	郭	公
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4752	4092
Phonetic component	郭	公
Rime group	鐸	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	郭	公
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːɡ/	/*kloːŋ/

Noun

郭公

(literary) puppet
(literary) inadvertent omissions in text
(literary, originally onomatopoeia) cuckoo

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
郭	公
かく > かっ Grade: S	こう Grade: 2
on'yomi

カッコウ on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

From Chinese 郭公 (guōgōng)^[1]

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かっこー (Atamadaka – )
IPA^(key):

Noun

郭(かっ)公(こう) or 郭公(カッコウ) • (kakkō) ^{←くわくこう (kwakukou)^?}

common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus
Synonym: 閑古鳥 (kanko-dori)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

References

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