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瞽

瞽

Translingual

Alternative forms

(archaic) 𠑹

Han character

瞽 (radical 109 目+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 土水月山 (GEBU), four-corner 4460₄)

blind
blind musician
stupid

References

KangXi: page 819, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23745

Dae Jaweon: page 1231, character 2

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2516, character 3

Unihan data for U+77BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		瞽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鼓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
皷	*kʷaːʔ
鼓	*kʷaːʔ
瞽	*kʷaːʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: gǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
  - Wade-Giles: ku³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
  - IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gu²
  - Yale: gú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
  - IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /kuo^X/▼

Rime
Character	瞽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	公戸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kuo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ko^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔ^X/
Li Rong	/ko^X/
Wang Li	/ku^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ˤaʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞽
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ ku^X ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˤaʔ/
English	blind
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	瞽
Reading #	1/1
No.	4338
Phonetic component	鼓
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*kʷaːʔ/

Definitions

瞽

Compounds

兩瞽相扶／两瞽相扶
有瞽
狂瞽
瞽叟
瞽史

瞽師／瞽师
瞽目
瞽目先生
瞽瞍
瞽者

瞽言妄舉／瞽言妄举
瞽言芻議／瞽言刍议
瞽說／瞽说
瞽議／瞽议

Japanese

Kanji

瞽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: こ (ko)

Kun: めしい (meshii)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

瞽 (cổ)

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