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寇

寇

See also: 冦

Translingual

Han character

寇 (radical 40 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十一山水 (JMUE), four-corner 30214, composition ⿱宀⿺元攴)

  1. bandits, thieves
  2. enemy
  3. invade

References

  • KangXi: page 288, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7209
  • Dae Jaweon: page 571, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 936, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5BC7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 寇

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 寇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kòu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khuwH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤ(r)o-s/
English rob; robber

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 寇
Reading # 1/1
No. 7497
Phonetic
component		 寇
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 𡨥
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰoːs/

Definitions

寇

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Japanese

Kanji

寇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: こう (kō)
  • Kun: あだする (adasuru), あだ (ada)

Korean

Hanja

寇 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

寇 (khấu, kháu)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 寇
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (寇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
滱 *kʰoː, *kʰoːs
寇 *kʰoːs
簆 *kʰoːs
蔻 *qʰoːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) - a person who holds a stick (卜) with his hand (又), about to beat the head (元) of another person, under the other persons own roof (宀). In Oracle bone script, two hands are holding the stick. In modern form, 卜 and 又 have merged into one character (攴), and is partially surrounded by 元.

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