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股

股

See also: 脵

Translingual

Han character

股 (radical 130 肉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月竹弓水 (BHNE), four-corner 77247, composition ⿰⺼殳)

References

  • KangXi: page 974, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29284
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1426, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2051, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+80A1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 股

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 股
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (股) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
股 *klaːʔ
羖 *klaːʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 肉 ‎(“body”) + 殳 ‎(“action”) – the hips as an active part of the body.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 股
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		 /kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɔX/
Li
Rong		 /koX/
Wang
Li		 /kuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 股
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤaʔ/
English thigh

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 股
Reading # 1/1
No. 4311
Phonetic
component		 股
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 古
Old
Chinese		 /*klaːʔ/

Definitions

股

  1. thigh; haunches
  2. share; portion
  3. (mathematics) the longest leg of a right triangle
    勾股定理  ―  gōugǔdìnglǐ  ―  Pythagoras' theorem
  4. Classifier for strength, forces.
  5. Classifier for smells or scent.
  6. Classifier for groups of people.
  7. Classifier for shares in a company.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

股

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Derived terms

  • もも肉, 股肉, 腿肉 (ももにく, momo niku); the meat of the leg, round, ham
  • 股引, 股引き, もも引き (ももひき, momo hiki); a close fitting trousers, working trousers

Readings

Noun

股 ‎(hiragana また, romaji mata)

  1. (anatomy) crotch, the space between the thighs
  2. fork in a tree, river, and so on

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

股 (cổ, cỗ)

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