薖

薖 U+8596, 薖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8596 ← 薕 [U+8595] CJK Unified Ideographs 薗 → [U+8597]

Translingual

Han character

薖 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜月月 (TYBB) or 難廿卜月月 (XTYBB), four-corner 4430₂, composition ⿱艹過)

1. empty, hungry-looking

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1061, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32116
• Dae Jaweon: page 1525, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3280, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8596

Chinese

trad.		薖
simp.		𰰾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
碢	*l'oːl
腡	*ɡ·roːl, *kʷroːl
過	*kloːl, *kloːls
渦	*kloːl, *qloːl
鍋	*kloːl
楇	*kloːl, *ɡloːls
瘑	*kloːl
緺	*koːl, *kroːl, *kʷroːl
堝	*kloːl
濄	*kloːl, *qloːl
鐹	*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
薖	*kʰloːl
簻	*kʰloːl, *kr'oːl
禍	*ɡloːlʔ
窩	*qloːl
萵	*qloːl
檛	*kr'oːl
膼	*kr'oːl
蝸	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
媧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
騧	*kroːl, *kʷroːl
冎	*kroːlʔ
剮	*kroːlʔ
諣	*qʰroːls, *qʰʷroːls
歄	*kʷroːl
咼	*kʰʷroːl
喎	*kʰʷroːl

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kē (ke¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwo¹ / fo¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kē
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ke
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo¹
    • Yale: kē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ke
    • Palladius: кэ (kɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwo¹ / fo¹
    • Yale: gwō / fō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwo¹ / fo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guo¹ / fo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔː⁵⁵/, /fɔː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwa

Rime
Character	薖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦禾切
Baxter	khwa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwa/
Li Rong	/kʰuɑ/
Wang Li	/kʰuɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰuɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fo1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤaj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰloːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kē
Middle Chinese	‹ khwa ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁaj/
English	great
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	薖
Reading #	1/1
No.	4373
Phonetic component	冎
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	科
Old Chinese	/*kʰloːl/

Definitions

薖

1. (literary) great; expansive

References

• “薖”, 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–