夅

See also: 降 and 舛

夅	U+5905, 夅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5905

← 处
[U+5904]

CJK Unified Ideographs

夆 →
[U+5906]

Translingual

Han character

夅 (Kangxi radical 34, 夂+3 in Chinese and Korean, 夂+4 in Japanese, 6 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹水手 (HEQ) or 難竹水手 (XHEQ), four-corner 2750₄, composition ⿱夂㐄)

Derived characters

佭, 𠲓, 鿍, 𡜠, 𡶶, 𢓤, 𢘸, 𢭎, 洚, 𤝷, 降, 𪰠, 栙, 𤇺, 𭷟, 𭹇, 胮, 𫞳, 䂫, 𥞜, 袶, 𥹪, 絳(绛), 舽, 𧧭(𬣺), 䜶, 跭, 𨋪, 𨦟, 𮥃, 𩐨, 𮩨, 𩷄, 𥪴, 𪐿, 𢥙
逄, 𦮔, 䇨, 𪔔, 𤵸, 𠏤, 㯯, 𡑺, 𢢨

Related characters

降 (Orthodox modern form)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 244, character 20
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5695
Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 868, character 4
Unihan data for U+5905

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夅) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
贛	kluːmʔ, kluːms, kromʔ, kloːms
灨	kluːmʔ, kluːms
竷	*kʰluːms
戇	kr'oːms, qʰloːms
洚	kruːŋs, ɡruːŋ, ɡloːŋ, ɡluːŋ
降	kruːŋs, ɡruːŋ
絳	*kruːŋs
栙	*ɡruːŋ
夅	*ɡruːŋ
跭	*ɡruːŋ
隆	*ɡ·ruːŋ
癃	*ɡ·ruːŋ
窿	*ɡ·ruːŋ
霳	*ɡ·ruːŋ

Pictogram (象形) – feet pointing down, descending (feet at top, legs pointing down – upside-down). Compare footprints in 舛 (chuǎn), and foot in 夂 (zhǐ), 夊 (suī).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 夅 – see 降 (“to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down; to visit; to honor with one's presence; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 降).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04414-001#39

Japanese

Kanji

夅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): こう (kō)
Kun: おおりる (ōriru)、おおろす (ōrosu)、ふうる (fūru)

Korean

Hanja

夅 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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