媾

媾

媾 U+5ABE, 媾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABE ← 媽 [U+5ABD] CJK Unified Ideographs 媿 → [U+5ABF]

Translingual

Han character

媾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 4545₇, composition ⿰女冓)

References

• KangXi: page 268, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5ABE

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Chinese

trad.		媾
simp. #		媾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	*koː, *kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	*koː, *koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	*koːs, *koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːs) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³, kau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
    • Wade–Giles: kou⁴
    • Yale: gòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
    • Palladius: гоу (gou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau³, kau³
    • Yale: gau, kau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau³, kau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo³, keo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kəu^H/

Rime
Character	媾
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwH/
Li Rong	/kuH/
Wang Li	/kəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ(r)o-s/
English	2nd marriage
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	媾
Reading #	1/1
No.	4193
Phonetic component	冓
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːs/

Definitions

媾

1. (originally) to marry in a cousin marriage (to cement the relationship between families); (in general) to marry
2. to dote on
3. to make peace; to reach agreement; to negotiate peace
4. to copulate; to have sexual intercourse

Compounds

交媾 (jiāogòu) 姻媾

媾合 (gòuhé) 媾和 (gòuhé)

淫媾

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Japanese

Kanji

媾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. sex, coitus
2. intimacy, relation

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こう (kō)
• Kun: よしみ (yoshimi)

Compounds

Compounds

• 交媾(こうこう) (kōkō): sexual intercourse

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Korean

Hanja

媾 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

媾: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

• Nom Foundation