姤

See also: ䷫

姤	U+59E4, 姤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59E4

← 姣
[U+59E3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

姥 →
[U+59E5]

Translingual

Han character

姤 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女竹一口 (VHMR), four-corner 4246₁, composition ⿰女后)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 260, character 8
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6215
Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1045, character 16
Unihan data for U+59E4

Chinese

trad.		姤
simp. ^#		姤

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
垢	*koːʔ
詬	koːʔ, kʰoːs, *qʰoːs
茩	*koːʔ
姤	*koːs
銗	*ɡoː
骺	*ɡoː
后	ɡoːʔ, ɡoːs
垕	*ɡoːʔ
郈	*ɡoːʔ
逅	*ɡoːs
鲘
缿	ɡoːs, ɡroːŋʔ

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
  - Wade–Giles: kou⁴
  - Yale: gòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
  - Palladius: гоу (gou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gau³
  - Yale: gau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: geo³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: kuwH

Rime
Character	姤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古候切
Baxter	kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kəu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəw^H/
Li Rong	/ku^H/
Wang Li	/kəu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*koːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	姤
Reading #	1/1
No.	5163
Phonetic component	后
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːs/

Definitions

姤

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 遘 (gòu, “to meet; to encounter”)
(literary) good; fine
(literary) evil
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to copulate
44th hexagram of the I Ching, "meet" (䷫)

Compounds

夷姤

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 姤 – see 妒 (“to be jealous of her husband or another woman; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 妒).

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00646

Japanese

Kanji

姤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: く (ku)
Kan-on: こう (kō)
Kun: あう (au, 姤う)、みめよい (mimeyoi, 姤い)、みにくい (minikui)

Korean

Hanja

姤 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姤: Hán Nôm readings: cạu

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