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枯

枯

Translingual

Han character

枯 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木十口 (DJR), four-corner 44960, composition ⿰木古)

References

  • KangXi: page 517, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1178, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+67AF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 枯

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 枯
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
箇 *kaːls
個 *kaːls
居 *kɯ, *kas
橭 *kaː, *kʰaː
嫴 *kaː
姑 *kaː
辜 *kaː
酤 *kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄 *kaː
鴣 *kaː
沽 *kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬 *kaː, *kaːʔ
古 *kaːʔ
罟 *kaːʔ
估 *kaːʔ
鈷 *kaːʔ
詁 *kaːʔ
牯 *kaːʔ
故 *kaːs
固 *kaːs
稒 *kaːɡs
痼 *kaːɡs
錮 *kaːɡs
鯝 *kaːɡs
棝 *kaːɡs
凅 *kaːɡs
枯 *kʰaː
軲 *kʰaː
跍 *kʰaː
骷 *kʰaː
苦 *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫 *qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬 *ɡaː
瑚 *ɡaː
湖 *ɡaː
鶘 *ɡaː
猢 *ɡaː
醐 *ɡaː
糊 *ɡaː
箶 *ɡaː
蝴 *ɡaː
胡 *ɡaː
瓳 *ɡaː
怙 *ɡaːʔ
祜 *ɡaːʔ
岵 *ɡaːʔ
婟 *ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛 *ɡaːʔ
据 *ka
裾 *ka
琚 *ka
椐 *ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋 *ka
蜛 *ka
崌 *ka
涺 *ka
腒 *ka, *ɡa
鋸 *kas
倨 *kas
踞 *kas
涸 *ɡaːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 枯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦胡切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰuo/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰɔ/
Li
Rong		 /kʰo/
Wang
Li		 /kʰu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 枯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰˤa/
English withered, dried up

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 枯
Reading # 1/1
No. 4238
Phonetic
component		 古
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 枯
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰaː/

Definitions

枯

  1. dried out, withered, decayed

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

枯

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

枯 (khô, gỗ, khò)

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