拷

拷 U+62F7, 拷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62F7 ← 拶 [U+62F6] CJK Unified Ideographs 拸 → [U+62F8]

Translingual

Han character

拷 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手十大尸 (QJKS), four-corner 5402₇, composition ⿰扌考)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 428, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12006
• Dae Jaweon: page 777, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1866, character 4
• Unihan data for U+62F7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		拷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
丂	*kʰluːʔ
攷	*kʰluːʔ
考	*kʰluːʔ
烤	*kʰluːʔ
拷	*kʰluːʔ
栲	*kʰluːʔ
洘	*kʰluːʔ
銬	*kʰluːs
巧	*kʰruːʔ, *kʰruːs
朽	*qʰluʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰluːʔ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 考 (OC *kʰluːʔ) that replaced the earlier form 考 (OC *kʰluːʔ, “to examine; to interrogate”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎo (kao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haau² / haau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khóⁿ / khó
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵khau; ¹khau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǎo
    • Wade–Giles: kʻao³
    • Yale: kǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kao
    • Palladius: као (kao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: haau² / haau¹
    • Yale: háau / hāau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haau² / haau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hao² / hao¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːu̯³⁵/, /haːu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khóⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: khónn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qvor
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔ̃⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khó
    • Tâi-lô: khó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoir
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kʰo⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵khau; ¹khau
    • MiniDict: khau^去; khau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²khau; ¹khau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰɔ³⁴/, /kʰɔ⁵³/

Note:

• 5khau - etymology 1, all liquid related senses of etymology 3;
• 1khau - to lockstitch (a border).

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰluːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拷
Reading #	1/1
No.	7406
Phonetic component	丂
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	考
Old Chinese	/*kʰluːʔ/

Etymology 1

Definitions

拷

1. to interrogate, chiefly by torture; to extract confession
2. to beat up; to flog; to torture

Etymology 2

Definitions

拷

1. Clipping of 拷貝／拷贝 (kǎobèi, “to copy”).

Etymology 3

Definitions

拷

1. (Wu) to scoop up (liquids) into a container or utensil
2. (Wu) to buy (liquid products)

   拷醬油／拷酱油 [Shanghainese]  ―  ⁵khau ⁵cian-yeu [Wugniu]  ―  to buy soy sauce

3. (Wu) to scoop out; to throw out (liquids)
4. (Wu) to lockstitch a border

Synonyms

• (to lockstitch a border): 拷邊／拷边

Compounds

• 吊拷絣把／吊拷𰬔把
• 吊拷繃扒／吊拷绷扒
• 嚴刑拷打／严刑拷打 (yánxíngkǎodǎ)
• 打拷
• 拷克機／拷克机
• 拷勘
• 拷問／拷问 (kǎowèn)
• 拷打 (kǎodǎ)
• 拷機／拷机 (kǎojī)
• 拷綢／拷绸 (kǎochóu)
• 拷訊／拷讯
• 拷貝／拷贝 (kǎobèi)
• 拷貝筆／拷贝笔
• 拷貝紙／拷贝纸
• 絣扒吊拷／𰬔扒吊拷
• 繃扒吊拷／绷扒吊拷
• 繃爬吊拷／绷爬吊拷
• 零拷

 

References

• “拷”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

拷

(Jōyō kanji)

1. torture
2. to beat and torture, often for a confession
3. to take, to rob

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kan’yō-on: ごう (gō, Jōyō)
• Kun: うつ (utsu, 拷つ)

Compounds

• 拷(ごう)器(き) (gōki, “instruments of torture”)
• 拷(ごう)問(もん) (gōmon, “torture”)
• 拷(ごう)掠(りゃく) (gōryaku, “to rob; to torture”)

Korean

Hanja

拷 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拷: Hán Nôm readings: khỉu, khảo

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