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U+5672, 噲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5672

[U+5671]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5673]
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Translingual

Han character

(radical 30 +13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口人一日 (ROMA), four-corner 68066, composition)

  1. swallow, gulp down
  2. greedy
  3. gasp

References

  • KangXi: page 211, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4407
  • Dae Jaweon: page 433, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 693, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5672

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qʰruːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
*koːbs, *koːd
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs
*koːbs, *ɡoːd
*koːbs, *koːd
*koːbs, *kroːbs
*ɡoːbs
*qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs
*qoːbs
*qoːbs, *qoːd
*qoːbs
*kʰroːbs
*kʰroːbs

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (30)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠuaiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaɨjsH/
Li
Rong
/kʰuaiH/
Wang
Li
/kʰwæiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuài
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuài
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwæjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰr[o][p]-s/
English comfortable (room)

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. 5515
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰroːbs/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. swallow
  2. gulp down
  3. greedy

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(kwae) (hangeul , revised kwae, McCune-Reischauer k'wae)

  1. throat
  2. refreshing

Vietnamese

Han character

(khoái, gọi, còn, gỏi, gũi, hỏi, khoải)

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