See also:
U+8831, 蠱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8831

[U+8830]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8832]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 142, +17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 中戈中戈廿 (LILIT), four-corner 50107, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1103, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33867
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1566, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2906, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8831

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Small seal script
   

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (insects) + (container) – poisonous insects raised in a container.

Etymology 1

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Unclear (Schuessler, 2007).

“Affair” may be related to (OC *kaːs, “happening; incident”).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɔX/
Li
Rong
/koX/
Wang
Li
/kuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gu2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˁaʔ/
English noxious vermin

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 4339
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*klaːʔ/

Definitions

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  1. (historical) a type of artificially cultivated poisonous insect; the one insect remaining in the vessel where toxic insects are allowed to eat each other
  2. insect that grows on rotting grain; pest; vermin
  3. hot, noxious air that harms people; miasma
  4. to entice; to bewitch
  5. malevolent sorcery, including charms, curses and prayers to evil spirits
  6. affair; matter
  7. 18th hexagram of the I Ching ()

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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  1. Alternative form of (, bewitchingly pretty; seductive)

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • On (unclassified): (ko) (ya)
  • Kun: そこなう (sokonau, 蠱なう)まじない (majinai, 蠱い)まどわす (madowasu, 蠱す)こびる (kobiru)

Korean

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Hanja

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(go) (hangeul , revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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