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瓠

瓠

Translingual

Han character

瓠 (radical 97 瓜+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大尸竹女人 (KSHVO), four-corner 42230, composition ⿰夸瓜)

  1. bottle gourd, calabash
  2. pot

References

  • KangXi: page 746, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21392
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1155, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2655, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+74E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瓠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (于) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
侉 *qaːls
夸 *kʰʷraː
姱 *kʰʷraː
胯 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
跨 *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs
誇 *kʰʷraː
垮 *kʰʷraːʔ
銙 *kʰʷraːʔ
骻 *kʰʷraːʔ
咵 *kʰʷraːʔ
釫 *ɢʷraː, *qʷaː
摦 *ɡʷraːs
鮬 *pɢʷaː, *kʰʷaː
嶀 *qʰʷl'aː
扝 *kʰʷaː, *qʷaː
刳 *kʰʷaː
郀 *kʰʷaː
挎 *kʰʷaː
袴 *kʰʷaːs
絝 *kʰʷaːs
褲 *kʰʷaːs
恗 *qʰaː
洿 *ɡʷaːʔ, *qʷaː
瓠 *ɡʷlaː, *ɡʷlaːs
鄠 *ɢʷlaːʔ
污 *qʷaː, *qʷaːs
杇 *qʷaː
圬 *qʷaː
鴮 *qʷaː
盓 *qʷaː
汙 *qʷaːs, *ɢʷa
樗 *qʰʷl'a
摴 *qʰʷl'a
荂 *pqʰʷa, *qʰʷa
雩 *qʰʷla, *ɢʷla
吁 *qʰʷa, *ɢʷas
盱 *qʰʷa
訏 *qʰʷa
扜 *qʰʷa, *qʷa
旴 *qʰʷa
冔 *qʰʷaʔ
紆 *qʷa
陓 *qʷa
迂 *qʷa, *qʷaʔ, *ɢʷa
虶 *qʷa
于 *ɢʷa
盂 *ɢʷa
竽 *ɢʷa
邘 *ɢʷa
玗 *ɢʷa
芋 *ɢʷa, *ɢʷas
杅 *ɢʷa
釪 *ɢʷa
骬 *ɢʷa
謣 *ɢʷla
宇 *ɢʷaʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 瓠 瓠
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 匣 (33) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 模 (23) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 戸吳切 胡誤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuo/ /ɦuoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuo/ /ɦuoH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣo/ /ɣoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦɔ/ /ɦɔH/
Li
Rong		 /ɣo/ /ɣoH/
Wang
Li		 /ɣu/ /ɣuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuo/ /ɣuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hú hù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瓠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ huH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤa-s/
English bottle-gourd, melon

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 瓠 瓠
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 15676 15678
Phonetic
component		 于 于
Rime
group		 魚 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 胡 護
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷlaː/ /*ɡʷlaːs/

Definitions

瓠

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Compounds

  • 堅瓠／坚瓠
  • 康瓠
  • 槃瓠／盘瓠
  • 瓠子
  • 瓠巴
  • 瓠果
  • 瓠犀
  • 瓠瓜
  • 瓠肥
  • 瓠落
  • 瓠葉／瓠叶
  • 盤瓠／盘瓠
  • 盤瓠石室／盘瓠石室
  • 苦瓠子

References

Japanese

Kanji

瓠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

瓠 • ‎(ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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