呷

呷 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口田中 (RWL), four-corner 6605₀, composition ⿰口甲)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 183, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3461
• Dae Jaweon: page 402, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 600, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5477

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰraːb): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

呷

1. to sip; to suck; to drink

呷

1. alternative form of 嘎 (“to quack (like a duck)”)

   呷呷叫  ―  gāgā jiào  ―  to quack (like a duck)

2. alternative form of 嘎 (“to laugh”)

Borrowed from French cap.

呷

1. (obsolete) Cape of Good Hope
   • 1730, 陳倫烱, 海國聞見錄, volume 上卷, page 30:

     自呷而東至戈什嗒，自戈什嗒而東至亞齊，其海皆呼曰小西洋。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     自呷而东至戈什嗒，自戈什嗒而东至亚齐，其海皆呼曰小西洋。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Zì Xiā ér dōng zhì Gēshéntà, zì Gēshéntà ér dōng zhì Yàqí, qí hǎi jiē hū yuē Xiǎoxīyáng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

呷

1. (obsolete) Malacca
   • 1894, G. T. Hare, editor, A Text Book of Documentary Chinese: Selected and Designed for the Special Use of Members of the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements, volume I, Singapore, page 109:

     大英國特授叻嶼呷三州府華民政務司 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     大英国特授叻屿呷三州府华民政务司 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Dàyīngguó tè shòu Lè Yǔ Xiā sān zhōufǔ huámín zhèngwù sī [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• (archaic) 滿剌加／满剌加 (Mǎnlàjiā), 呷地

This orthography is influenced by Mandarin 甲 (jiá).

呷

1. (chiefly Hokkien) alternative form of 食 (“to eat; to drink; to take in”)
   • 2014, 浩子, “媽媽的菜”, in 發發發狂想曲, performed by 浩角翔起 [Plungon]:

     麻油炒龍眼肉　自細漢就呷到搭 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     麻油炒龙眼肉　自细汉就呷到搭 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     môa-iû chhá lêng-géng-bah, chū sè-hàn tiō chia̍h kàu taⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “呷”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “呷”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: きょう (kyō)^{←けふ (kefu, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かふ (kafu, historical)}
• Kun: あおる (aoru, 呷る)、すう (suu, 呷う)

呷 • (hap) (hangeul 합)

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