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各
各
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Translingual
Han character
各 (radical 30 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹水口 (HER), four-corner 27604, composition ⿱夂口)
Derived characters
各 (Old Chinese *klaag, by Zhengzhang Shangfang) is frequently used to demonstrate the presence of consonant cluster initials in Old Chinese.
- (k/g-) 客 (愘, 揢), 閣 (擱), 格, 铬, 鉻, 阁 (搁), 咯, 胳, 硌, 骼, 袼, 挌, 茖, 佫, 敋, 鮥, 臵, 饹, 觡, 鵅, 蛒, 恪
- (l-) 洛 (落), 絡, 络, 酪, 烙, 珞, 路, 略, 畧, 饹, 餎, 骆, 珞, 雒, 峈, 硌, 詻, 鮥, 洜, 笿
References
- KangXi: page 174, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3281
- Dae Jaweon: page 387, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 583, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5404
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
各 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 各
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Bamboo and silk script | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (各) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 髂 | *kʰraːɡs |
| 路 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 輅 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 賂 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 虂 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 露 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 潞 | *raːɡs |
| 鷺 | *raːɡs |
| 璐 | *raːɡs |
| 簬 | *raːɡs |
| 簵 | *ɡ·raːɡs |
| 洛 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 駱 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 絡 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 酪 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 烙 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 雒 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 珞 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 硌 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 袼 | *ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ |
| 笿 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 鉻 | *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ |
| 鮥 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 鵅 | *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ |
| 挌 | *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ |
| 落 | *ɡ·raːɡ |
| 各 | *klaːɡ |
| 胳 | *klaːɡ |
| 閣 | *klaːɡ |
| 格 | *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ |
| 擱 | *klaːɡ |
| 恪 | *kʰlaːɡ |
| 愙 | *kʰaːɡ |
| 貉 | *ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ |
| 狢 | *ɡlaːɡ |
| 佫 | *ɡlaːɡ |
| 略 | *ɡ·raɡ |
| 茖 | *kraːɡ |
| 骼 | *kraːɡ |
| 觡 | *kraːɡ |
| 蛒 | *kraːɡ |
| 敋 | *kraːɡ |
| 客 | *kʰraːɡ |
| 喀 | *kʰraːɡ |
| 揢 | *kʰraːɡ |
| 額 | *ŋɡraːɡ |
| 峉 | *ŋɡraːɡ |
| 頟 | *ŋɡraːɡ |
| 詻 | *ŋɡraːɡ |
| 垎 | *ɡraːɡ |
| 楁 | *ɡraːɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 夂 (“sole of foot”) + 口 – to come, to enter; original form of 𢓜 and 格 (OC *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gok3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kok
- Min Nan (POJ): koh / kok
- Wu (Wiktionary): koq (T4)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˋ
- Wade-Giles: ko4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: geh
- IPA (key): /kɤ⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄜˇ
- Wade-Giles: ko3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gee
- IPA (key): /kɤ²¹⁴/
- Note: gě - only in 自各兒.
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gok3
- Yale: gok
- Cantonese Pinyin: gok8
- IPA (key): /kɔːk̚³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kok
- Hakka Romanization System: gog`
- Hagfa Pinyim: gog5
- IPA: /kok̚²/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: koq (T4)
- IPA (key): /kʊʔ⁵⁵/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 各 |
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| Mandarin | Beijing | /kɤ⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /kɤ⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /kɤ⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /kə²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /kuə⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /kɤ²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /kɤ²¹/ | |
| Xining | /kɔ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /kə¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /kə¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /kɤ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /kuo³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ko³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /ko²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /ko³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /koʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /kɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /kaʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /kʌʔ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /kaʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /koʔ⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /loʔ⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /koʔ⁵/ | |
| Wenzhou | /ko²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /kɔʔ²¹/ |
| Tunxi |
/ko⁵/ /kʰo⁵/ |
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| Xiang | Changsha | /ko²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /ko²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /kɔʔ⁵/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /kok̚¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /kok̚²²/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kɔk̚³/ |
| Nanning | /kɔk̚³³/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kɔk̚³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/kɔk̚³²/ /koʔ³²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /kɔʔ²³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /kɔ²⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kak̚²/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/ko³³/ ~自 /ko⁵⁵/ ~個 |
| Rime | |
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| Character | 各 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 鐸 (103) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古落切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kak̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/kɑk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ge |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 各 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
gè |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ kak › |
| Old Chinese |
/*kˤak/ |
| English | each |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 各 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 3881 |
| Phonetic component |
各 |
| Rime group |
鐸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
各 |
| Old Chinese |
/*klaːɡ/ |
Definitions
各
Compounds
Derived terms from 各
Japanese
See also 各-
Kanji
各
Readings
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References
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
- ↑ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
Korean
Hanja
各 • (gak) (hangeul 각, revised gak, McCune-Reischauer kak)
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