矍

矍	U+77CD, 矍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77CD

← 矌
[U+77CC]

CJK Unified Ideographs

矎 →
[U+77CE]

Translingual

Han character

矍 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月山人土水 (BUOGE), four-corner 6640₇, composition ⿱瞿又 or ⿱䀠隻)

look about in fright or alarm

Derived characters

彏, 戄, 攫, 欔, 玃, 䂄, 矡, 籰, 蠼, 𧮞, 貜, 躩, 䢲, 䣤, 钁(䦆)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 820, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23792
Dae Jaweon: page 1232, character 9
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2520, character 13
Unihan data for U+77CD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		矍

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	kʷaɡ, kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	kʷaɡ, ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	kʷaɡ, qʰʷaɡ
戄	ɡʷaɡ, ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic and semantic 瞿 (OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa, “started; vigilant”) + 又 (a hand catching a bird 隹).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jué (jue²)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fok³ / gwok³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiok / kiak

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jué
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
  - Wade–Giles: chüeh²
  - Yale: jywé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
  - Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: fok³ / gwok³
  - Yale: fok / gwok
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fok⁸ / gwok⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: fog³ / guog³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiok
  - Tâi-lô: kiok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiog
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɔk̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kiɔk̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiak
  - Tâi-lô: kiak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kiag
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiak̚³²/

Middle Chinese: kjwak

Rime
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	藥 (108)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居縛切
Baxter	kjwak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuak̚/
Li Rong	/kiuak̚/
Wang Li	/kĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiwak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwok³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)ak/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʷaɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jué
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwak ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʷ(r)ak/
English	anxious look
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	矍
Reading #	1/1
No.	7265
Phonetic component
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	玃
Old Chinese	/*kʷaɡ/

Definitions

矍

look about in fright or alarm

Compounds

矍然
矍矍
矍鑠 / 矍铄 (juéshuò)

References

“矍”, 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

矍

(Hyōgai kanji)

surprise and confusion

Readings

Go-on: かく (kaku)^{←くわく (kwaku, historical)}
Kan-on: きゃく (kyaku)^{←きやく (kyaku, historical)}^{←くゐやく (kwiyaku, ancient)}
Kun: おどろき (odoroki)

Korean

Hanja

矍 (eum 확 (hwak))

look about in fright or alarm