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彀

彀 U+5F40, 彀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F40
← 弿
[U+5F3F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彁 →
[U+5F41]

Translingual

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Han character

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彀 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE) or 難土弓竹弓 (XGNHN), four-corner 47247, composition ⿹𣪊弓)

  1. enough, adequate
  2. fully, quite

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9844
  • Dae Jaweon: page 678, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2161, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5F40

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 彀

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (殻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
彀 *koːɡs
鷇 *kʰoːɡs
瞉 *kʰoːɡs
豰 *pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
瑴 *kroːɡ, *koːɡ
愨 *kʰroːɡ
殼 *kʰroːɡ
觳 *kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ
嗀 *qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ
穀 *kloːɡ
糓 *kloːɡ
轂 *kloːɡ
榖 *kloːɡ
瀔 *koːɡ
縠 *ɡloːɡ

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 彀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古候切
Baxter kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kəuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kəuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəwH/
Li
Rong 		/kuH/
Wang
Li 		/kəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ˁ(r)ok-s/
English draw a bow to the full

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 彀
Reading # 1/1
No. 7413
Phonetic
component 		殻
Rime
group 		候
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		遘
Old
Chinese 		/*koːɡs/
Notes 原文弓在下

Definitions

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彀

  1. (literary) to draw a bow to the full
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) target
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) shooting range
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good shooter
  5. (historical dictionaries only) good
  6. (dated) Alternative form of 夠 / 够 (gòu)

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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彀

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. enough
  2. adequate fully
  3. quite

Readings

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  • On (unclassified): こう (kō)、く (ku)

Korean

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Hanja

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彀 (eum 구 (gu))

  1. draw a bow to the full
  2. shoot a bow

Vietnamese

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Han character

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彀: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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