庫

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See also: 库 and 厙
庫 U+5EAB, 庫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EAB
← 庪
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 庬 →

Translingual

Han character

庫 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈十田十 (IJWJ), four-corner 00256, composition ⿸广車)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9330
  • Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 884, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5EAB

Chinese

trad. 庫
simp. 库

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (車) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
車 *kʰlja, *kla
硨 *kʰlja
厙 *qʰljaːs
庫 *kʰaːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰaːs) : semantic 广 (“building”) + phonetic 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla, “carriage”) – a carriage in a building.

Etymology

According to Karlgren (1956), cognate with 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla, “carriage”) (< "storehouse for carriages").

Pronunciation

Note:
  • keu3 - vernacular;
  • ku3 - literary.
Rime
Character 庫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦故切
Baxter khuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰuoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰuoH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰɔH/
Li
Rong 		/kʰoH/
Wang
Li 		/kʰuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fu3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʰˁa-s/
English arsenal; storehouse

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 庫
Reading # 1/1
No. 1314
Phonetic
component 		車
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		絝
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰaːs/

Definitions

庫

  1. warehouse; storehouse; armory
  2. (physics) Short for 庫侖／库仑 (kùlún, “coulomb (unit of electrical charge)”).
  3. (programming) library
  4. a surname: Ku

Descendants

  • → Mongolian: хүү (xüü)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

庫

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. warehouse

Readings

  • Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō †)
  • Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
  • Kan’yō-on: く (ku, Jōyō †)
  • Kun: くら (kura, 庫)

Korean

Hanja

庫 (eumhun 곳집 고 (gotjip go))

  1. hanja form? of 고 (“warehouse, storehouse”)
  2. hanja form? of 고 (“armory”)

Compounds

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

庫: Hán Nôm readings: khố, kho, khó

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