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鼓
鼓
See also: 皼
Translingual
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Han character
鼓 (radical 207 鼓+0, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土廿十水 (GTJE), four-corner 44147, composition ⿰壴支)
- Kangxi radical #207, ⿎ (“drum”).
References
- KangXi: page 1526, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48330
- Dae Jaweon: page 2061, character 15
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4763, character 1
- Unihan data for U+9F13
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
鼓 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 鼓
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (鼓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 皷 | *kʷaːʔ |
| 鼓 | *kʷaːʔ |
| 瞽 | *kʷaːʔ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gu2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kú
- Min Dong (BUC): gū
- Min Nan (POJ): kó͘
- Wu (Wiktionary): ku (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
- Wade-Giles: ku3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
- IPA (key): /ku²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gu2
- Yale: gú
- Cantonese Pinyin: gu2
- IPA (key): /kuː³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kú
- Hakka Romanization System: gu`
- Hagfa Pinyim: gu3
- IPA: /ku³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gū
- IPA (key): /ku³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
- Tâi-lô: kóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: kor
- IPA (Xiamen): /kɔ⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kɔ⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /kɔ⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kɔ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ku (T2)
- IPA (key): /kv̩ʷ³⁴/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 鼓 |
| 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 |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 鼓 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4337 |
| Phonetic component |
鼓 |
| Rime group |
魚 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
古 |
| Old Chinese |
/*kʷaːʔ/ |
| Notes | 亦同皷 |
Definitions
鼓
- (music) drum
- to beat; to strike; to play (a musical instrument)
- to blow
- to incite; to encourage
- to bulge
Compounds
Derived terms from 鼓
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Japanese
Kanji
鼓
Readings
Compounds
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 鼓 |
|
つづみ Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
- Kun'yomi
- (Tokyo) つづみ [tsùzúmíꜜ] (Odaka - [3])[1][2]
- (Tokyo) つづみ [tsùzúmí] (Heiban - [0])[1]
- IPA(key): [t͡sɯᵝzɯᵝmi]
Noun
鼓 (hiragana つづみ, romaji tsuzumi)
- hand drum
References
- 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
鼓 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go (or gu, in the case of janggu), McCune-Reischauer ko, Yale ko)
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Vietnamese
Han character
鼓 (cổ)
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