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毆
毆
See also: 殴
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 殴 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 殴 |
| Traditional | 毆 |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 毆
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| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 摳 | *kʰoː, *kʰo |
| 彄 | *kʰoː |
| 剾 | *kʰoː, *qoː |
| 謳 | *qoː |
| 歐 | *qoː, *qoːʔ |
| 區 | *qoː, *kʰo |
| 鷗 | *qoː |
| 甌 | *qoː |
| 漚 | *qoː, *qoːs |
| 瞘 | *qoː |
| 嘔 | *qoː, *qoːʔ |
| 櫙 | *qoː |
| 膒 | *qoː |
| 蓲 | *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos |
| 醧 | *qoː, *qas |
| 鏂 | *qoː |
| 毆 | *qoːʔ |
| 塸 | *qoːʔ |
| 貙 | *kʰl'o |
| 樞 | *kʰjo |
| 驅 | *kʰo, *kʰos |
| 軀 | *kʰo |
| 嶇 | *kʰo |
| 鰸 | *kʰo |
| 敺 | *kʰo |
| 傴 | *qoʔ |
| 嫗 | *qos |
| 饇 | *qos |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qoːʔ) : phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo) + semantic 殳 (“action”).
Han character
毆 (radical 79 殳+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸口竹弓水 (SRHNE), four-corner 77747, composition ⿰區殳)
- beat, fight with fists, hit
- to strike, brawl
- A surname, listed 361st among the Hundred Family Surnames
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 587, character 15
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16674
- Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2165, character 4
- Unihan data for U+6BC6
Chinese
| trad. | 毆 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 殴 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄡ
- Wade-Giles: ou1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
- IPA (key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: au2
- Yale: áu
- Cantonese Pinyin: au2
- IPA (key): /ɐu̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ió
- Tâi-lô: ió
- Phofsit Daibuun: ioir
- IPA (Xiamen): /iɤ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /iɤ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɤ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /io⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɤ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 毆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 烏后切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔəuX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔəuX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔəuX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔəwX/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔuX/ |
| Wang Li |
/əuX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔə̯uX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
ǒu |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 毆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10597 |
| Phonetic component |
區 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
歐 |
| Old Chinese |
/*qoːʔ/ |
Definitions
毆
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Japanese
Kanji
毆
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 殴)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
毆 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: ẩu
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