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U+77BD, 瞽
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77BD

[U+77BC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+77BE]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 109, +13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土水月山 (GEBU), four-corner 44604, composition )

  1. blind
  2. blind musician
  3. stupid

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 819, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23745
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2516, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+77BD

Chinese

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simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

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Etymology

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From (OC *kʷaːʔ, “drum”) (Schuessler, 2007), as musicians were blind in ancient times.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɔX/
Li
Rong
/koX/
Wang
Li
/kuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gu2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˁaʔ/
English blind

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. 4338
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʷaːʔ/

Definitions

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  1. blind
  2. undiscerning

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: (ku)
  • Kan-on: (ko)
  • Kun: めしい (meshii, 瞽い)めくら (mekura)

Definitions

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Kanji in this term
めくら
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
めくら
[noun] (likely offensive) blindness
[noun] (likely offensive) blind person
[noun] (likely offensive) ignorance
[noun] (likely offensive) ignorant person; an ignoramus
Alternative spelling
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja

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(go) (hangeul , revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: cổ

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