堠

堠	U+5820, 堠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5820

← 堟
[U+581F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

堡 →
[U+5821]

Translingual

Han character

堠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土人弓大 (GONK), four-corner 4713₄, composition ⿰土侯)

earthen watchtower
battlements, battlemented walls

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 233, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5253

Dae Jaweon: page 470, character 30

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 465, character 1

Unihan data for U+5820

Chinese

trad.		堠
simp. ^#		堠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (侯) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
緱	koː, koː
侯	*ɡoː
喉	*ɡoː
猴	*ɡoː
瘊	*ɡoː
篌	*ɡoː
糇	*ɡoː
帿	*ɡoː
睺	ɡoː, ɡoːs
矦	*ɡoː
餱	*ɡoː
翭	*ɡoː
葔	*ɡoː
鄇	ɡoː, ɡoːs
鍭	ɡoː, ɡoːs
鯸	*ɡoː
候	*ɡoːs
堠	*ɡoːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡoːs) : semantic 土 (“soil; earth”) + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): hòu (hou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: hòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: hòu
  - Wade–Giles: hou⁴
  - Yale: hòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: how
  - Palladius: хоу (xou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: hau⁶
  - Yale: hauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: heo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯²²/

Middle Chinese: huwH

Rime
Character	堠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡遘切
Baxter	huwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦəu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəw^H/
Li Rong	/ɣu^H/
Wang Li	/ɣəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hau⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	堠
Reading #	1/1
No.	5155
Phonetic component	侯
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	𠋫
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːs/
Notes	見漢簡

Definitions

堠

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Compounds

堠吏
堠程
堠鼓
斥堠

Japanese

Kanji

堠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

battlements
battlemented walls

Readings

On (unclassified): こう (kō); く (ku)

Kun: ものみ (monomi)

Korean

Hanja

堠 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu)

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