牯

牯 U+726F, 牯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-726F
← 牮
[U+726E]
CJK Unified Ideographs 牰 →
[U+7270]

Translingual

Han character

牯 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹手十口 (HQJR), four-corner 24560, composition ⿰牜古)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 699, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19981
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1112, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1806, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+726F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
牯

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *kaːʔ) : semantic 牛 (“cow”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ)

Etymology

Wang (1982) related this word to 羖 (OC *klaːʔ, “(black) ram”) and 豭 (OC *kraː, “boar”).

However, Schuessler (2007) suggested an Austroasiatic origin: compare these Bahnaric lexical items Koho klaw, Chrau klo:, Bulo Stieng klaw "male" (all from Proto-Bahnaric *kləw < Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁l(ə)w(ʔ) (“male”)), as well as Khmer ខ្លោះ (khlɑh, “male, virile”), កំលោះ (kɑmlɑh, “young man”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 牯
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 公戸切
Baxter kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/koX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɔX/
Li
Rong
/koX/
Wang
Li
/kuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gu2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 牯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.kʷˁaʔ/
English male (bovine)

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 牯
Reading # 1/1
No. 4225
Phonetic
component
古
Rime
group
魚
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
古
Old
Chinese
/*kaːʔ/

Definitions

牯

  1. bull; ox (especially castrated)
  2. cow (female)
  3. (Hakka, Teochew, suffix) male
    Antonym: 嫲 (Hakka)
    狗牯 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  kiéu-kú [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  male dog
    賊牯/贼牯 [Sixian Hakka]  ―  chhe̍t-kú [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]  ―  male thief

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

牯

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): こ (ko); く (ku)
  • Kun: おうし (ōshi)

Korean

Hanja

牯 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牯: Hán Nôm readings: cổ

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