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顧

顧

See also: 顾

Translingual

Han character

顧 (radical 181 頁+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 竹土一月金 (HGMBC) or 戈土一月金 (IGMBC), four-corner 31286, composition ⿰雇頁)

  1. look back
  2. look at
  3. look after
  4. a surname

References

  • KangXi: page 1409, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43689
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1928, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4392, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9867

Chinese

trad. 顧
simp. 顾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (戸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
妒 *tqaːs
雇 *kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
顧 *kʷaːs
戽 *qʰʷaːʔ, *qʰʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ
戶 *ɡʷaːʔ
扈 *ɡʷaːʔ
帍 *ɡʷaːʔ
昈 *ɡʷaːʔ
滬 *ɡʷaːʔ
簄 *ɡʷaːʔ
齭 *skʰraʔ, *sqʰraʔ
所 *sqʰraʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷaːs) : phonetic 雇 ‎(OC *kʷaːs, *ɡʷaːʔ) + semantic 頁.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 顧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古暮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /koH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kɔH/
Li
Rong		 /koH/
Wang
Li		 /kuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 顧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷˤaʔ-s/ (~ *[k]ʷˤaʔ)
English look around

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 顧
Reading # 1/1
No. 5293
Phonetic
component		 戸
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 顧
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷaːs/

Definitions

顧

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Japanese

Kanji

顧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

顧 (cố)

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