呱

See also: 哌

呱	U+5471, 呱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5471

← 呰
[U+5470]

CJK Unified Ideographs

呲 →
[U+5472]

Translingual

Han character

呱 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹女人 (RHVO), four-corner 6203₀, composition ⿰口瓜)

wail, crying of a child
to swear at

Derived characters

𥦫

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 182, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3454
Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 13
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 604, character 10
Unihan data for U+5471

Chinese

trad.		呱
simp. ^#		呱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (瓜) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
瓜	*kʷraː
坬	*kʷraːs
窊	qʷraː, qʷraːs
畖	*qʷraː
搲	*qʷraːs
攨	*qʷraːs
孤	*kʷaː
苽	*kʷaː
胍	*kʷaː
泒	*kʷaː
呱	*kʷaː
觚	*kʷaː
柧	*kʷaː
罛	*kʷaː
軱	*kʷaː
菰	*kʷaː
箛	*kʷaː
狐	*ɡʷaː
弧	*ɡʷlaː

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guā, gū (gua¹, gu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚ, ㄍㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kōa

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guā
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gua
  - Wade–Giles: kua¹
  - Yale: gwā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
  - Palladius: гуа (gua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gū
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gu
  - Wade–Giles: ku¹
  - Yale: gū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gu
  - Palladius: гу (gu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
  - Yale: gū / wā / gwā / gwá
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gu¹ / waa¹ / gwaa¹ / gwaa²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gu¹ / wa¹ / gua¹ / gua²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː⁵⁵/, /waː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kōa
  - Tâi-lô: kuā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koa
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kua²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kua³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua³³/

Middle Chinese: ku

Rime
Character	呱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古胡切
Baxter	ku
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuo/
Pan Wuyun	/kuo/
Shao Rongfen	/ko/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔ/
Li Rong	/ko/
Wang Li	/ku/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤa/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	呱
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gū
Middle Chinese	‹ ku ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷˁa/
English	wail
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	呱
Reading #	1/1
No.	4351
Phonetic component	瓜
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	孤
Old Chinese	/*kʷaː/

Definitions

呱

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Compounds

呱呱
呱呱叫 (guāguājiào)
呱呱墮地 / 呱呱堕地 (gūgūduòdì)
呱呱墜地 / 呱呱坠地 (gūgūzhuìdì)
呱嗒板兒 / 呱嗒板儿 (guādabǎnr)
呱噪
咭咭呱呱
咿哩呱喇
唧唧呱呱
嘰哩呱啦 / 叽哩呱啦 (jīliguālā)
拉呱兒 / 拉呱儿
頂呱呱 / 顶呱呱 (dǐngguāguā)

References

“呱”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
“Query for 呱”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

呱

(Hyōgai kanji)

cry

Readings

Go-on: く (ku)
Kan-on: こ (ko)

Derived terms

呱呱(ここ) (koko)

Korean

Hanja

呱 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呱: Hán Nôm readings: oa

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