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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 田木 (WD), four-corner 60904)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 516, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14556
  • Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1168, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+679C

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·roːlʔ
*ɡ·roːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ, *kʰluːls
*kloːlʔ, *kloːls
*kloːlʔ
*kloːlʔ
粿 *kloːlʔ
*kʰloːl
*kʰloːl, *ɡroːlʔ
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːls, *kʰroːlʔ
*kʰloːl, *kʰloːnʔ, *ɡloːnʔ
*kʰloːlʔ
*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls, *kloːns
*kʰloːlʔ, *kʰloːls
*qʰloːlʔ, *ɡloːlʔ, *ɡroːlʔ
*qloːlʔ, *kroːl
*ɡroːlʔ
*ɡluːlʔ

Pictogram (象形) :  (field) +  (tree) – field () of trees ().

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (95)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuɑX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuɑX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuɑX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwaX/
Li
Rong
/kuɑX/
Wang
Li
/kuɑX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuɑX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guǒ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guǒ
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwaX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˤo[r]ʔ/
English fruit; result

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. 4767
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kloːlʔ/

Definitions

  1. fruit
    /    pínguǒ   apple
  2. result
       guǒrán   as expected

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (kuɑX).

Pronunciation

Counter

(hiragana , romaji -ka, historical hiragana くわ)

  1. pieces of fruit

Noun

(hiragana , romaji ka, historical hiragana くわ)

  1. fruit
  2. (Buddhism) phala, attained state, result
  3. (Buddhism) enlightenment (as the fruits of one's Buddhist practice)

See also

  • (in): cause, factor
  • 悟り (satori): Buddhist enlightenment

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(gwa) (hangeul , revised gwa, McCune-Reischauer kwa, Yale kwa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(quả, hủ)

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