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Translingual

Han character

(radical 94 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹卜金大 (KHYCK), four-corner 40248, composition)

  1. cunning, deceitful, treacherous

References

  • KangXi: page 710, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20365
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1122, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1345, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+72E1

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*keːws, *kreːwʔ
*pʰreːws
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw
*kreːw, *ŋɡreːwʔ, *qreːw
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *kreːws
*kreːw, *kreːwʔ, *ɡreːwʔ
*kreːw, *qʰreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːwʔ, *ɡreːw
*kreːws, *ɡreːws
*kreːws
*kʰreːw
*kʰreːw
*kʰraːw
*ŋɡreːwʔ
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːw
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*ɡreːws
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*keːwʔ
*qeːws
*pqreːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠauX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚauX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kauX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨwX/
Li
Rong
/kauX/
Wang
Li
/kauX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kauX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǎo
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6307
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːwʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 三窟狡兔
  • 刁狡
  • 奸狡
  • 朦狡
  • 狡兔三窟
  • 狡憤狡愤
  • 狡猾 (jiǎohuá)
  • 狡猾多詐狡猾多诈
  • 狡獪狡狯
  • 狡童
  • 狡蠹
  • 狡計狡计
  • 狡詐狡诈
  • 狡賴狡赖
  • 狡辯狡辩 (jiǎobiàn)
  • 狡飾狡饰
  • 狡黠

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. sly, cunning, sneaky

Readings

Compounds

  • 狡佞 (こうねい) (kōnei)
  • 狡兎 (こうと) (kōto)
  • 狡知 (こうち) (kōchi)
  • 狡猾 (こうかつ) (kōkatsu)
  • 狡獪 (こうかい) (kōkai)
  • 狡童 (こうどう) (kōdō)
  • 狡計 (こうけい) (kōkei)
  • 狡賢 (ずるがしこ) (zurugashikoi)
  • 狡辛 (こすから) (kosukarai)
Kanji in this term
ずる
Hyōgaiji
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ずる, romaji zuru)

  1. slyness, sly act, sly person

References

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

Korean

Hanja

(gyo) (hangeul , revised gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(giảo, sinh, xảo)

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