媾
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Translingual
Han character
媾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 45457, composition ⿰女冓)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
- Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5ABE
Chinese
| trad. | 媾 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 媾 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (冓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːs): semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gau3 / kau3
- Eastern Min (BUC): gáiu
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gieo4
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kò͘
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: gau3 / kau3
- Yale: gau / kau
- Cantonese Pinyin: gau3 / kau3
- Guangdong Romanization: geo3 / keo3
- Sinological IPA (key): /kɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Eastern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: gieo4
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ga̤̍u
- Sinological IPA (key): /kieu⁴²/
- (Putian, Xianyou)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kò͘
- Tâi-lô: kòo
- Phofsit Daibuun: kox
- IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /kɔ²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /kɔ¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
- Middle Chinese: kuwH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/
Definitions
媾
- (originally) to marry in a cousin marriage (to cement the relationship between families); (in general) to marry
- to dote on
- to make peace; to reach agreement; to negotiate peace
- to copulate; to have sexual intercourse
Compounds
References
- “媾”, 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–
- “媾”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “媾”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 77.
Japanese
Kanji
媾
Readings
Compounds
- 交媾 (kōkō): sexual intercourse
Korean
Hanja
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Vietnamese
Han character
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