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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 116 +5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十金竹女人 (JCHVO), four-corner 30232, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 864, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25467
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1292, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2726, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+7A8A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʷraː
*kʷraːs
*qʷraː, *qʷraːs
*qʷraː
*qʷraːs
*qʷraːs
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*kʷaː
*ɡʷaː
*ɡʷlaː

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (34) (34)
Final () (99) (99)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () II II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠua/ /ʔˠuaH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔʷᵚa/ /ʔʷᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔua/ /ʔuaH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔwaɨ/ /ʔwaɨH/
Li
Rong
/ʔua/ /ʔuaH/
Wang
Li
/wa/ /waH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔwa/ /ʔwaH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4342 4344
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʷraː/ /*qʷraːs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. pit, vault
  2. to store in a pit
  3. (Cantonese) arm (body)
  4. (slang, of females) to **** (i.e. cucumber () in a hole ())

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(wa) (hangeul , revised wa, McCune-Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

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