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告

See also: 吿 and 吉
告 U+544A, 告
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-544A
← 呉
[U+5449] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呋 →
[U+544B]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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告 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹土口 (HGR), four-corner 24601, composition ⿱𠂒口)

  1. Shuowen Jiezi radical №21

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 181, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3381
  • Dae Jaweon: page 398, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 589, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+544A

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 告
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (告) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
造 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
慥 *skʰuːɡs
艁 *skʰuːɡs, *sɡuːʔ
糙 *skʰuːɡs
告 *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
誥 *kuːɡs
郜 *kuːɡs, *kuːɡ
祰 *kʰuːʔ, *kuːɡ
靠 *kʰuːɡs
浩 *ɡuːʔ, *kuːb
晧 *ɡuːʔ
皓 *ɡuːʔ
窖 *kruːɡs
簉 *skʰruɡs
梏 *kruːɡ, *kuːɡ
硞 *kʰruːɡ, *kʰuːɡ
牿 *kuːɡ
鵠 *kuːɡ, *ɡuːɡ
酷 *kʰuːɡ
焅 *kʰuːɡ
嚳 *kʰuːɡ
頶 *ɡuːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 牛 (“ox”) + 口, an ox head above a container to gather its blood. Originally meaning "to pray and offer sacrifice".

Etymology 1

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trad. 告/吿
simp. 告
alternative forms 𠰛
𢍎

Cognate with Thai กล่าว (glàao, “to say; to declare”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation 1

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Note: go3 - “to sue”.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 告
Mandarin Beijing /kɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /kau⁵³/
Tianjin /kɑu⁵³/
Jinan /kɔ²¹/
Qingdao /kɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /kau³¹²/
Xi'an /kau⁴⁴/
Xining /kɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /kɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /kɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /kɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /kau³⁵/
Chengdu /kau¹³/
Guiyang /kao²¹³/
Kunming /kɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /kɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /kɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /kau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /kɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /kɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /kɔ³⁵/
Suzhou /kæ⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /kɔ⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /kɜ⁴²/
Hui Shexian /kɔ³²⁴/
Tunxi /kə⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /kau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /kaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kɑu⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kau⁵³/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /kou³³/
Nanning /ku³³/
Hong Kong /kou³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ko²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kɔ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kau³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /kau²¹³/
/ko²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kau³⁵/
/ko³⁵/
Rime
Character 告
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古到切
Baxter kawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawH/
Li
Rong 		/kɑuH/
Wang
Li 		/kɑuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gou3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kawH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁuk-s/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 1/2
No. 3805
Phonetic
component 		告
Rime
group 		奧
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		誥
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡs/
Definitions
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告

  1. to report to
  2. to tell; to inform
  3. to request
  4. to announce; to declare
  5. to expose; to denounce
  6. to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges
  7. (Eastern Min) to call
Synonyms
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  • (to sue):

Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沃切
Baxter kowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kok̚/
Wang
Li 		/kuok̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		guk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kowk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁuk/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 2/2
No. 3818
Phonetic
component 		吿
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		梏
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡ/
Definitions
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告

  1. Only used in 忠告 (zhōnggào).

Pronunciation 3

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Rime
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 沃 (6)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古沃切
Baxter kowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kawk̚/
Li
Rong 		/kok̚/
Wang
Li 		/kuok̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		guk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 告
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kowk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁuk/
English announce, inform

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 告
Reading # 2/2
No. 3818
Phonetic
component 		吿
Rime
group 		覺
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		梏
Old
Chinese 		/*kuːɡ/
Definitions
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告

  1. Only used in 告朔.

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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trad. 告/吿
simp. 告
alternative forms 校
較／较

From 校 (MC kaewH, “to check; to compare”) (Yang, 2010).

Pronunciation

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告

  1. (Southwestern Mandarin) to try; to check out

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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告

  1. † to interrogate and convict

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

告

Kyūjitai

吿

Kanji

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告

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. tell, inform
  2. revelation

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
告
つ(げ)
Grade: 5
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
吿 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 告 – see the following entry.
【つげ】
[noun] (religion, usually prefixed as おつげ) revelation
[verb] imperfective and stem (or continuative) forms of つげる (tsugeru) [ichidan]
Alternative spelling
告げ
(This term, 告, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Etymology 1

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Hanja

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告 (eumhun 알릴 고 (allil go))

  1. hanja form? of 고 (“report”)

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Hanja

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告 (eumhun 청할 곡 (cheonghal gok))

  1. (obsolete) hanja form? of 곡 (“asking”)

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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告: Hán Nôm readings: cáo, cáu, cốc, kiếu

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