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U+5672, 噲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5672

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口人一日 (ROMA), four-corner 68066, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 211, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4407
  • Dae Jaweon: page 433, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 693, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5672

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰroːbs) : semantic + phonetic (OC *koːbs, *ɡoːbs).

Etymology 1

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (30)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter khwaejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠuaiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaɨjsH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuaiH/
Wang
Li
/kʰwæiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
faai3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuài
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwæjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰr-s/
English comfortable (room)

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. 5515
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰroːbs/

Definitions

  1. swallow down
  2. mouth of birds or beasts

Etymology 2

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (Eastern Min) Alternative form of (that; then)

Etymology 3

trad.
simp.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (dated in Cantonese, Hakka, still used in Teochew) Alternative form of  / (can; will)

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. swallow
  2. gulp down
  3. greedy

Readings

Korean

Hanja

(kwae) (hangeul , revised kwae, McCune–Reischauer k'wae)

  1. throat
  2. refreshing

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khoái, gọi, còn, gỏi, gũi, hỏi, khoải

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