彀

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彀 U+5F40, 彀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F40
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彁 →

Translingual

Han character

彀 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE) or 難土弓竹弓 (XGNHN), four-corner 47247, composition ⿹𣪊弓)

  1. enough, adequate
  2. fully, quite

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9844
  • Dae Jaweon: page 678, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2161, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5F40

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 彀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (殻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
彀 *koːɡs
鷇 *kʰoːɡs
瞉 *kʰoːɡs
豰 *pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
瑴 *kroːɡ, *koːɡ
愨 *kʰroːɡ
殼 *kʰroːɡ
觳 *kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ
嗀 *qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
穀 *kloːɡ
糓 *kloːɡ
轂 *kloːɡ
榖 *kloːɡ
瀔 *koːɡ
縠 *ɡloːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 彀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古候切
Baxter kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kəuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kəuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəwH/
Li
Rong 		/kuH/
Wang
Li 		/kəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁ(r)ok-s/
English draw a bow to the full

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 彀
Reading # 1/1
No. 7413
Phonetic
component 		殻
Rime
group 		候
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		遘
Old
Chinese 		/*koːɡs/
Notes 原文弓在下

Definitions

彀

  1. (literary) to draw a bow to the full
  2. † target
  3. † shooting range
  4. † good shooter
  5. ‡ good
  6. (dated) Alternative form of 夠／够 (gòu)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

彀

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. enough
  2. adequate fully
  3. quite

Readings

  • On (unclassified): こう (kō)、く (ku)

Korean

Hanja

彀 (eum 구 (gu))

  1. draw a bow to the full
  2. shoot a bow

Vietnamese

Han character

彀: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

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