From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: ほこ
U+5938, 夸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5938
えびす
[U+5937]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5939]

Translingual

[edit]

Han character

[edit]

(Kangxi radical 37, だい+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input だいいちいちしかばね (KMMS), four-corner 40207, composition だい)

Derived characters

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 250, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5854
  • Dae Jaweon: page 509, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 526, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5938

Chinese

[edit]

Glyph origin

[edit]
Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい形声けいせい, OC *kʰʷraː) : semantic だい (man) + phonetic (OC *ɢʷa)

Etymology 1

[edit]
simp. and trad.

Pronunciation 1

[edit]


Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) けい (29)
Final (いん) あさ (99)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Closed
Division (ひとし) II
Fanqie ふりきり
Baxter khwae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰˠua/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰua/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwaɨ/
Li
Rong
/kʰua/
Wang
Li
/kʰwa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰwa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kuā
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
faa1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuā
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwæ ›
Old
Chinese
/*[kʷʰ]ˁra/
English boast

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. 15648
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
さかな
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
ほこ
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷraː/
Definitions
[edit]

  1. extravagant; luxurious; handsome

Pronunciation 2

[edit]

Definitions
[edit]

  1. beautiful

Pronunciation 3

[edit]

Definitions
[edit]

  1. Alternative form of またが (kuà, to cross over)

Pronunciation 4

[edit]

Definitions
[edit]

  1. Only used in 夸𡗸.
Compounds
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]
For pronunciation and definitions of – see ほこ (“to boast; to exaggerate; to praise; to commend”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of ほこ).
Notes:

Japanese

[edit]

Kanji

[edit]

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. boast

Readings

[edit]
  • On (unclassified): (ko) (ka)
  • Kun: おごる (ogoru)

Korean

[edit]

Hanja

[edit]

(eum (gwa))

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

[edit]

Han character

[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: khoa

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.