嚳

See also: 喾

嚳	U+56B3, 嚳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56B3

← 嚲
[U+56B2]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嚴 →
[U+56B4]

Translingual

Han character

嚳 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 竹月竹土口 (HBHGR), four-corner 7760₁, composition ⿱𦥯告(GHTK) or ⿱𦥯吿(J))

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 214, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4586
Dae Jaweon: page 436, character 31
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 704, character 4
Unihan data for U+56B3

Chinese

trad.		嚳
simp.		喾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嚳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
造	skʰuːɡs, sɡuːʔ
慥	*skʰuːɡs
艁	skʰuːɡs, sɡuːʔ
糙	*skʰuːɡs
告	kuːɡs, kuːɡ
誥	*kuːɡs
郜	kuːɡs, kuːɡ
祰	kʰuːʔ, kuːɡ
靠	*kʰuːɡs
浩	ɡuːʔ, kuːb
晧	*ɡuːʔ
皓	*ɡuːʔ
窖	*kruːɡs
簉	*skʰruɡs
梏	kruːɡ, kuːɡ
硞	kʰruːɡ, kʰuːɡ
牿	*kuːɡ
鵠	kuːɡ, ɡuːɡ
酷	*kʰuːɡ
焅	*kʰuːɡ
嚳	*kʰuːɡ
頶	*ɡuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰuːɡ): phonetic 學 (OC *ɡruːɡ) + semantic 告 (“to tell”). 告 (OC *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ) may also be a phonetic component.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kù (ku⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): guk¹ / kuk¹
Eastern Min (BUC): gók
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khok

(Teochew, Peng'im): kog⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷khoq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kù
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kù
  - Wade–Giles: kʻu⁴
  - Yale: kù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuh
  - Palladius: ку (ku)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: guk¹ / kuk¹
  - Yale: gūk / kūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: guk⁷ / kuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: gug¹ / kug¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊk̚⁵/, /kʰʊk̚⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gók
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kouʔ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khok
  - Tâi-lô: khok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qog
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰɔk̚³²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: kog⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khok
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰok̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷khoq
  - MiniDict: khoh^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴khoq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰoʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: khowk

Rime
Character	嚳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	沃 (6)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦沃切
Baxter	khowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰawk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰok̚/
Wang Li	/kʰuok̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ku
Expected Cantonese Reflex	huk¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kʰuːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嚳
Reading #	1/1
No.	3826
Phonetic component	告
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	酷
Old Chinese	/*kʰuːɡ/

Definitions

嚳

(historical or mythological) Emperor Ku
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to be urgent; to inform quickly

Compounds

帝嚳 / 帝喾 (Dìkù)

References

“嚳”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

嚳

(Hyōgai kanji)

mythical emperor
to inform quickly
an urgent communication

Readings

Go-on: こく (koku)
Kan-on: こく (koku)
Kun: つげる (tsugeru, 嚳げる)

Korean

Hanja

嚳 (eum 곡 (gok))

mythical emperor
to inform quickly
an urgent communication