括

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括 U+62EC, 括
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62EC
← 拫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 拭 →

Translingual

Han character

括 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手竹十口 (QHJR), four-corner 52064, composition ⿰扌舌)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11988
  • Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1870, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+62EC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 括
alternative forms 𢬸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (桰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咶 *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd
話 *ɡroːds
刮 *kroːd
鴰 *kroːd, *koːd
趏 *kroːd, *kʰroːd
舌 *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed
姡 *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd
頢 *ɡroːd, *koːd
括 *koːd
活 *koːd, *ɡoːd
适 *koːd, *kʰoːd
栝 *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
佸 *koːd, *ɡoːd
髺 *koːd
聒 *koːd
銛 *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ
葀 *koːd
懖 *koːd
筈 *koːd, *kʰoːd
萿 *koːd
蛞 *kʰoːd
闊 *kʰoːd
秳 *ɡoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːd) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • koat/khoat - literary;
  • koah - vernacular (“Classifier for groups of people”).
Note:
  • guag4 - Shantou;
  • guêg4 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 括
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 末 (64)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古活切
Baxter kwat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwat̚/
Li
Rong 		/kuɑt̚/
Wang
Li 		/kuɑt̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kuɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gut3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 括
Reading # 1/1
No. 7567
Phonetic
component 		桰
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		括
Old
Chinese 		/*koːd/
Notes 從氏下口聲同有塞義

Definitions

括

  1. † to tie; to tie up; to tie together
  2. † to seek; to search for
  3. to embrace; to enclose
  4. to include; to encompass
  5. to enclose in brackets
  6. a surname
  7. (Hokkien) Classifier for groups of people.

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Thai: กวด (gùuat)

Japanese

Kanji

括

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. fasten, tie up, arrest, constrict (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Readings

  • Go-on: かち (kachi)
  • Kan-on: かつ (katsu, Jōyō)
  • Kun: くくる (kukuru, 括る)、くくり (kukuri)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 括 (MC kwat). Recorded as Middle Korean 괄〮 (kwál) (Yale: kwal) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

括 (eumhun 묶을 괄 (mukkeul gwal))

  1. hanja form? of 괄 (“inclusion; encompass”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

括: Hán Nôm readings: quát, khoát, quất, quét

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