夃

夃	U+5903, 夃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5903

← 夂
[U+5902]

CJK Unified Ideographs

处 →
[U+5904]

Translingual

Han character

夃 (Kangxi radical 34, 夂+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹尸水 (NHSE) or 弓尸竹水 (NSHE), four-corner 1722₇, composition ⿵乃又)

Derived characters

𬗅, 盈

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 244, character 19
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5693
Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 393, character 6
Unihan data for U+5903

Chinese

simp. and trad.		夃
alternative forms		𡕔

Glyph origin

In oracle bone inscriptions, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 人 (“person”) + [Term?] (“mark on the thigh”) – thigh. Original form of 股 (gǔ).

Shuowen interprets its later form as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 𠄎 + 夂.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gǔ, gū

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ, ㄍㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ko͘ / kó͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
  - Wade–Giles: ku³
  - Yale: gǔ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
  - Palladius: гу (gu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - 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: gu²
  - Yale: gú
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
  - Guangdong Romanization: gu²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ko͘
  - Tâi-lô: koo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kof
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kó͘
  - Tâi-lô: kóo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kor
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔ⁵⁵⁴/

Middle Chinese: kuX

Rime
Character	夃
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
Baxter	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuo^X/
Pan Wuyun	/kuo^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ko^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔ^X/
Li Rong	/ko^X/
Wang Li	/ku^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kaːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	夃
Reading #	1/1
No.	4281
Phonetic component
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*kaːʔ/

Definitions

夃

(obsolete) to have great profit in sales

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 夃 – see 贏 (“to win; to triumph; to be victorious; to beat; to defeat; to triumph over; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 贏).

References

“夃”, 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

夃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: く (ku)、えい (ei)
Kan-on: こ (ko)、えい (ei)
Kun: もうける (mōkeru, 夃ける)、うる (uru, 夃る)、しばらく (shibaraku, 夃く)