枸

枸 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木心口 (DPR), four-corner 4792₀, composition ⿰木句)

• 𣕌

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 517, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14588
• Dae Jaweon: page 905, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1186, character 10
• Unihan data for U+67B8

Historical forms of the character 枸
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ): semantic 木 + phonetic 句 (OC *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo).

“bent; crooked”

Cognate with 句 (OC *koː, “hook”), 鉤 (OC *koː, “to hook”), 曲 (OC *kʰoɡ, “bent”).

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枸

1. only used in 枸杞 (gǒuqǐ) and 枸骨

枸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)Hovenia sp. (probably Hovenia acerba)

   • 南山有枸，北山有楰。

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Nán shān yǒu jǔ, běi shān yǒu yú.

     On the hills of the south is the Hovenia;
     On those of the north is the yú.

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 蒟 (jǔ, “betel; Piper betle”)

枸

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) crooked; bent

   • 故枸木必將待檃栝烝矯然後直。
     故枸木必将待檃栝烝矫然后直。

     From: Xunzi, c. 3^rd century BCE

     Gù gōu mù bì jiāng dài yǐnkuò zhēng jiǎo ránhòu zhí.

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2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) intertwined roots

   • 有九欘，下有九枸。
     有九𣚚，下有九枸。

     From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas

     Yǒu jiǔ zhú, xià yǒu jiǔ gōu.

     There are nine bending branches, and below are nine intertwined roots.

枸

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku)、こう (kō)
• Kun: ひいらぎ (hīragi)、からたち (karatachi)、まがる (magaru)

枸 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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枸: Hán Nôm readings: cẩu, cù, cử

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