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庫

庫

See also: 库 and 厙

Translingual

trad. 庫
simp. 库

Han character

庫 (radical 53 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈十田十 (IJWJ), four-corner 00256, composition ⿸广車)

  1. armory, treasury, storehouse

References

  • KangXi: page 346, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9330
  • Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 884, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5EAB

Chinese

trad. 庫
simp. 库

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (車) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
車 *kʰlja, *kla
硨 *kʰlja
厙 *qʰljaːs
庫 *kʰaːs

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 庫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɔH/
Li
Rong		 /kʰoH/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 庫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʰˤa-s/
English arsenal; storehouse

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 庫
Reading # 1/1
No. 1314
Phonetic
component		 車
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 絝
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaːs/

Noun

庫

  1. warehouse, storehouse, (file) library

Compounds

Descendants

Japanese

Kanji

庫

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. warehouse

Readings

Korean

Hanja

庫 • ‎(go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune-Reischauer ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

庫 (khố, kho, khó)

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