玃

玃

玃 U+7383, 玃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7383 ← 玂 [U+7382] CJK Unified Ideographs 玄 → [U+7384]

Translingual

Han character

玃 (radical 94, 犬+20, 23 strokes, cangjie input 大竹月山水 (KHBUE), four-corner 4624₇, composition ⿰犭矍)

References

• KangXi: page 722, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20807
• Dae Jaweon: page 1134, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1379, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7383

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		玃

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矍) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
钁	*kʷaɡ
攫	*kʷaɡ
矍	*kʷaɡ
躩	*kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ
玃	*kʷaɡ
貜	*kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ
彏	*kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
戄	*ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ
籰	*ɢʷaɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷaɡ) : semantic 犬 (“dog”) + phonetic 矍 (OC *kʷaɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/

Definitions

玃

1. (ancient) legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan
2. (literary) monkeys
3. Same as 攫.

Compounds

玃猱

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Japanese

Kanji

玃

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. large ape found in W. China

Readings

• On (unclassified): きゃく (kyaku); こ (ko); かく (kaku); く (ku); けき (keki)

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Korean

Hanja

玃 • (hwak) (hangeul 확, revised hwak, McCune–Reischauer hwak)

1. 원숭이: ape