齷

See also: 𮯎 and 龌

齷	U+9F77, 齷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F77

← 齶
[U+9F76]

CJK Unified Ideographs

齸 →
[U+9F78]

Translingual

Traditional	齷
Shinjitai (extended)	𮯎
Simplified	龌

Han character

齷 (Kangxi radical 211, 齒+9, 24 strokes, cangjie input 卜山尸一土 (YUSMG), four-corner 2771₄, composition ⿰齒屋)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1535, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48727
Dae Jaweon: page 2074, character 4
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4798, character 10
Unihan data for U+9F77

Chinese

trad.		齷
simp.		龌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
握	*qroːɡ
幄	*qroːɡ
偓	*qroːɡ
渥	*qroːɡ
齷	*qroːɡ
楃	*qroːɡ
喔	*qroːɡ
腛	*qroːɡ
媉	*qroːɡ
屋	*qoːɡ
剭	*qoːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qroːɡ): semantic 齒 (“teeth”) + phonetic 屋 (OC *qoːɡ)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wò (wo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ak¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ók
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ak / ok

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wò
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄛˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wò
  - Wade–Giles: wo⁴
  - Yale: wò
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woh
  - Palladius: во (vo)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ak¹
  - Yale: āk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ak⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: eg¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐk̚⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ók
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ouʔ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ak
  - Tâi-lô: ak
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ag
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ak̚⁵/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ak̚³²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ok
  - Tâi-lô: ok
  - Phofsit Daibuun: og
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɔk̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔk̚⁵/

Note:

ak - vernacular;
ok - literary.

Middle Chinese: 'aewk

Rime
Character	齷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	於角切
Baxter	'aewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/ʔɔk̚/
Wang Li	/ɔk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yue
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ok³

Definitions

齷

only used in 齷齪／龌龊 (wòchuò)
(Hokkien) dirty

Compounds

卑鄙齷齪 / 卑鄙龌龊 (bēibǐwòchuò)
卑陋齷齪 / 卑陋龌龊
齷齪 / 龌龊 (wòchuò)
齷齪氣 / 龌龊气
齷齪火 / 龌龊火
齷齪熱 / 龌龊热
齷齱 / 龌𱌶 (wòchuò)

References

“齷”, 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

Shinjitai (extended)	𮯎
Print standard	齷

Kanji

齷

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 𮯎)

grating the teeth
fretful

Readings

On (unclassified): あく (aku)
Kun: こせつく (kosetsuku, 齷く)、あくせくする (akusekusuru)

Korean

Hanja

齷 • (ak) (hangeul 악, revised ak, McCune–Reischauer ak, Yale ak)

narrow, small
dirty