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U+5F40, 彀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F40
弿
[U+5F3F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5F41]

Translingual

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Han character

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

  1. enough, adequate
  2. fully, quite

References

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  • 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

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]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. *[t] 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7413
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːɡs/
Notes

Definitions

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

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. enough
  2. adequate fully
  3. quite

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): こう () (ku)

Korean

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Hanja

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(eum (gu))

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

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

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