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告

告

告 U+544A, 告
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-544A
← 呉
[U+5449] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呋 →
[U+544B]
See also: 吿 and 吉

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

告 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹土口 (HGR), four-corner 24601, composition ⿱⺧口)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 589, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+544A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 告

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
造 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥 *skʰuːɡs
艁 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙 *skʰuːɡs
告 *kuːɡs
誥 *kuːɡs
郜 *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰 *kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠 *kʰuːɡs
浩 *ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧 *ɡuːʔ
皓 *ɡuːʔ
窖 *kruːɡs
簉 *skʰruɡs
梏 *kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞 *kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿 *kuːɡ
鵠 *kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷 *kʰuːɡ
焅 *kʰuːɡ
嚳 *kʰuːɡ
頶 *ɡuːɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 告
Mandarin Beijing /kɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /kau⁵³/
Tianjin /kɑu⁵³/
Jinan /kɔ²¹/
Qingdao /kɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kau³¹²/
Xi'an /kau⁴⁴/
Xining /kɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /kɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /kɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /kɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /kau³⁵/
Chengdu /kau¹³/
Guiyang /kao²¹³/
Kunming /kɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /kɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /kɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /kɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /kæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /kɜ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /kə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kɑu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kau⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kou³³/
Nanning /ku³³/
Hong Kong /kou³³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ko²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɔ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kau³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kau²¹³/
/ko²¹³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kau³⁵/
/ko³⁵/
Rime
Character 告 告
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 古到切 古沃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɑuH/ /kuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kɑuH/ /kuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɑuH/ /kok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kawH/ /****̚/
Li
Rong		 /kɑuH/ /kok̚/
Wang
Li		 /kɑuH/ /kuok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kɑuH/ /kuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gào gu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告 告
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gào gào
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kawH › ‹ kowk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤuk-s/ /*kˤuk/
English announce, inform announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 1/1
No. 3805
Phonetic
component		 告
Rime
group		 奧
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 誥
Old
Chinese		 /*kuːɡs/

Definitions

告

  1. to report to
  2. to tell; to inform
  3. to request
  4. to announce; to declare
  5. to expose; to denounce
  6. to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges
  7. (Min Dong) to call

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

告

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. tell, inform
  2. revelation

Readings

Korean

Hanja

告 • ‎(go, gok) (hangeul 고, 곡, revised go, gok, McCune-Reischauer ko, kok, Yale ko, kok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

告 (cáo, cáu, kiếu)

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