孔

孔 U+5B54, 孔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B54
← 孓
[U+5B53]
CJK Unified Ideographs 孕 →
[U+5B55]

Translingual

Stroke order
4 strokes

Han character

孔 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓木山 (NDU), four-corner 12410, composition ⿰子乚)

Derived characters

  • 吼, 𪣂, 𢗵, 𢪬, 犼, 𭥛, 𦙥, 𣏺, 𤆺, 𬗆, 𧉔, 𫁎, 𡰼, 芤, 𥥅, 𩫂, 𡵾, 𥤾, 𡦀

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 277, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 544, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1008, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5B54

Chinese

simp. and trad.
孔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 孔
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Bronze inscriptions: Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 丿 (“opening”) + 子 (“child”) – opening in the skull of a newborn, i.e. fontanelle.

Etymology

"hole"
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”). 孔 (OC *kʰloːŋʔ, “hole”) is probably the endoactive derivation of 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, “hollow; empty”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan ཁུང (khung, “hole”), Jingpho ladi hku (lədî hkū, “nostril”), Chepang घाङ् (gʰaŋ, “hole”), Burmese အခေါင်း (a.hkaung:, “hollow place; cavity”), Naxi kho³³ (“cave; hole; pit”) (STEDT).
"peacock"
Starostin reconstructs 孔 (OC *khōŋ) and compares it to Proto-Vietic *k-voːŋ. Compare also Semai kuwok, Semnam kwɔːŋ.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • kháng - vernacular;
  • khóng - literary.

Rime
Character 孔
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 康董切
Baxter khuwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰuŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰuŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəwŋX/
Li
Rong
/kʰuŋX/
Wang
Li
/kʰuŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰuŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kǒng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hung2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 孔
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kǒng
Middle
Chinese
‹ khuwngX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ʰˁoŋʔ/
English (surname)

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 孔
Reading # 1/1
No. 7489
Phonetic
component
孔
Rime
group
東
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
孔
Old
Chinese
/*kʰloːŋʔ/
Notes 金文象就乳,與古候切從子殼聲字(說文乳也)同源

Definitions

孔

  1. hole; aperture; opening
    鼻孔  ―  bíkǒng  ―  nostril
  2. classifier for cave dwellings, oil wells, etc..
  3. (literary, for irrigation, drainage) ditch; trench; canal; channel
  4. (literary, or in compounds) profound; far-reaching
  5. (literary, or in compounds) unimpeded; unblocked
  6. (literary, or in compounds) large
  7. (literary, or in compounds) fine
  8. (literary, or in compounds) very; extremely
  9. (literary, or in compounds) peacock; peafowl
  10. a surname
    孔祥熙  ―  Kǒng Xiángxī  ―  H. H. Kung (Chinese banker and politician)
  11. (specifically) Short for 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ, “Confucius”).
    祭孔  ―  jì Kǒng  ―  worship of Confucius
    批林批孔  ―  pī Lín pī Kǒng  ―  (historical) Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius movement
  12. (Quanzhou Hokkien) classifier for partitioned grid units in a tool.

Synonyms

  • (hole):
  • (very):
  • (peacock): 孔雀 (kǒngquè)
  • (Confucius):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

孔

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. cavity

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
孔
あな
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 孔 – see the following entry.
【穴あな】6
[noun] hole
[noun] opening, aperture
[noun] pit
[noun] cave, cavern
[noun] lair, den, burrow
[noun] loss, deficit
[noun] flaw, defect
(This term, 孔, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

孔 (eumhun 구멍 공 (gumeong gong))

  1. Hanja form? of 공 (“opening, hole”).

Vietnamese

Han character

孔: Hán Nôm readings: khổng, hỏng, hổng, khỏng, khủng

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