See also:
U+6473, 摳
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6473

[U+6472]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6474]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 64, 手+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 手尸口口 (QSRR), four-corner 51016, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 451, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12638
  • Dae Jaweon: page 802, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1943, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6473

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Etymology 1

trad.
simp.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ku (to take up; to lift; to prop up) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • khau - vernacular;
  • kho͘/khio - literary.
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 1kheu
      • MiniDict: kheu
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1kheu
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰɤ⁵³/
  • Xiang
    • (Changsha)
      • Wiktionary: kou1 / kou6
      • Sinological IPA (key): /kʰəu̯³³/, /kʰəu̯²⁴/
Note: kou6 - “stingy”.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (29) (29)
Final () (24) (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter khju khuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰɨo/ /kʰəu/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰio/ /kʰəu/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰio/ /kʰəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰuə̆/ /kʰəw/
Li
Rong
/kʰio/ /kʰu/
Wang
Li
/kʰĭu/ /kʰəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰi̯u/ /kʰə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
heoi1 hau1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10579 10611
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰoː/ /*kʰo/

Definitions

  1. (literary) to lift (one's clothes)
  2. to dig out (with one's fingers or a pointed object)
    心挖膽心挖胆 [Shanghainese]  ―  5kheu-shin1-uaq7-te5 [Wugniu]  ―  to be totally devoted (literally, “to dig out one's heart and gallbladder”)
  3. to carve; to cut
  4. to delve into; to study meticulously
  5. (colloquial or dialectal) tight-fisted; stingy; miserly
  6. (Internet slang, sex) to finger; to use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus
Synonyms
  • (to carve):
  • (to delve into):
  • (stingy):

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad.
simp.
alternative forms Cantonese
Cantonese
Eastern Min

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. (Cantonese, Eastern Min) to mix
    [Cantonese]  ―  kau1 maai4 [Jyutping]  ―  to mix together
    [Cantonese]  ―  kau1 mai5 [Jyutping]  ―  (uncooked) rice of different types mixed together
Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. raise
  2. lift up
  3. tight-fisted

Readings

  • On (unclassified): こう () (ku)おう (ō) (u)
  • Kun: ひろう (hirō)

Korean

Hanja

• (gu) (hangeul , revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

  1. pull up, lift up

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: khua, khu, so, , xua, đùa, khùa, khuá,

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