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渠

渠

Translingual

Han character

渠 (radical 85 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水尸木 (ESD), four-corner 31904, composition ⿱洰木)

  1. ditch, canal, channel, gutter

References

  • KangXi: page 633, character 48
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17764
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1040, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1645, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6E20

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 渠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巨) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
柜 *kaʔ
渠 *ɡa
磲 *ɡa
蕖 *ɡa
蟝 *ɡa
璖 *ɡa
巨 *ɡaʔ
距 *ɡaʔ
拒 *ɡaʔ
苣 *ɡaʔ
炬 *ɡaʔ
詎 *ɡaʔ, *ɡas
鉅 *ɡaʔ
秬 *ɡaʔ
粔 *ɡaʔ
駏 *ɡaʔ
歫 *ɡaʔ
矩 *kʷaʔ
榘 *kʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 渠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 強魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨʌ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiɔ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiɔ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gɨə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiɔ/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭo/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯wo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjo ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ](r)a/
English canal

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 渠
Reading # 1/1
No. 7042
Phonetic
component		 巨
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡa/

Noun

渠

  1. a passage that water or other liquids may flow along, and it is made by people: channel, ditch, canal, drain
    渠務 / 渠务  ―  qúwù  ―  drainage services

Proper noun

渠

  1. A surname​.

Pronoun

渠

  1. (literary) third person pronoun; he, she, it
    問渠哪得清如許，為有源頭活水來。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    问渠哪得清如许，为有源头活水来。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 朱熹, 觀書有感
    Wèn qú nǎ dé qīng rú xǔ, wèi yǒu yuántóu huóshuǐ lái. [Pinyin]
    [I want to] ask it [the pond] why it can be so clear. It is because running water continuously flows in.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 他 (“he”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 伊、彼、其、渠、斯、此
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 他
Mandarin Beijing 他、怹
Taiwan 他
Jinan 他
Xi'an 他
Wuhan 他、他家
Chengdu 他
Yangzhou 他
Hefei 他
Cantonese Guangzhou 佢
Hong Kong 佢、其、渠
Taishan 佢
Yangjiang 佢
Gan Nanchang 佢
Hakka Meixian 佢
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 佢
Liudui (S. Sixian) 佢
Hsinchu (Hailu) 佢
Dongshi (Dabu) 佢
Zhuolan (Raoping) 佢
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 佢
Jin Taiyuan 他
Min Bei Jian'ou 佢
Min Dong Fuzhou 伊
Min Nan Xiamen 伊
Taipei 伊
Chaozhou 伊
Wu Shanghai 伊
Suzhou 俚、俚倷、唔倷
Hangzhou 他
Wenzhou 渠
Chongming 伊
Danyang 他
Jinhua 渠
Tangxi 渠、渠儂
Ningbo 渠、渠儂
Xiang Changsha 他
Shuangfeng 他

Japanese

Kanji

渠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

渠 • ‎(geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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Vietnamese

Han character

渠 (cừ, gừa, khờ)

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