斛

斛

See also: 㪶 and 𧤰

斛 U+659B, 斛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-659B ← 斚 [U+659A] CJK Unified Ideographs 斜 → [U+659C]

Translingual

Han character

斛 (radical 68, 斗+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓月卜十 (NBYJ), four-corner 2420₀, composition ⿰角斗)

Derived characters

• 嘝, 槲, 蔛, 䈸, 㩂, 𡐗, 𣘳, 𥡿, 𫁚

References

• KangXi: page 478, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13508
• Dae Jaweon: page 836, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2254, character 2
• Unihan data for U+659B

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Chinese

trad.		斛
simp. #		斛
variant forms		㪶 (unit of measurement) 𭽎 (unit of measurement) 𮗤 (unit of measurement) 𧤰 (historical variant in 字彙) 𫯂 (ancient form (Bronze inscription))

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
捔	*sɡroːɡ, *kroːɡ
桷	*kroːɡ
角	*kroːɡ, *ɡ·roːɡ
埆	*kʰroːɡ
确	*ɡroːɡ
斛	*ɡoːɡ
槲	*ɡoːɡ
蔛	*ɡoːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hú (hu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): huk⁶, fuk⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ho̍k / ha̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: hú
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: hu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: huk⁶, fuk⁶
    • Yale: huhk, fuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: huk⁹, fuk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hug⁶, fug⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hʊk̚²/, /fʊk̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ho̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hok
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ha̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ha̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hak
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hak̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hak̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hak̚²⁴/

Note: ho̍k - literary, ha̍k - colloquial.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 斛
Mandarin	Beijing	/xu³⁵/
	Harbin	/xu²⁴/
	Tianjin	/xu⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/xu⁴²/
	Qingdao	/xu⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xu³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xu²⁴/
	Xining	/xv̩²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/xu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/xu⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/xu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/xu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/fu³¹/
	Guiyang	/fu²¹/
	Kunming	/xu²¹²/
	Nanjing	/xuʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/xuəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuəʔ⁵⁴/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/xuəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦoʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦoʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦoʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/vu²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/xu²²/ /u²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/fu⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸu⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian
	Taoyuan	/fuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/hok̚²/
	Nanning	/huk̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/hok̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/hɔk̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/høyʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xu²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hok̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦuk̚/▼

Rime
Character	斛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡谷切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəwk̚/
Li Rong	/ɣuk̚/
Wang Li	/ɣuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	斛
Reading #	1/1
No.	6377
Phonetic component	角
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	縠
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːɡ/

Definitions

斛

1. unit of measurement equal to about five or ten dou (斗)
2. Used in 石斛 (shíhú, “dendrobium”).

Compounds

浴斛

石斛 (shíhú)

石斛蘭屬／石斛兰属

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Japanese

Kanji

斛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ごく (goku)
• Kan-on: こく (koku)
• Kun: ます (masu), ますめ (masume)

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Korean

Hanja

斛 • (gok) (hangeul 곡, revised gok, McCune–Reischauer kok, Yale kok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

斛: Hán Việt readings: hộc (胡(hồ)谷(cốc)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
斛: Nôm readings: hộc[1][2][3][4], hóc[3]

1. Hán tự form of hộc (“unit of measurement”).

References

1. Nguyễn (2014).
2. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
3. Trần (2004).
4. Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).