蔻

蔻

蔻 U+853B, 蔻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-853B ← 蔺 [U+853A] CJK Unified Ideographs 蔼 → [U+853C]

Translingual

Han character

蔻 (radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿十一水 (TJME), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱艹寇)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1056, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3284, character 15
• Unihan data for U+853B

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蔻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (寇) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
滱	*kʰoː, *kʰoːs
寇	*kʰoːs
簆	*kʰoːs
蔻	*qʰoːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kòu (kou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: k'ou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kow
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau³
    • Yale: kau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: keo³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /həu^H/▼

Rime
Character	蔻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	呼漏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/həuH/
Pan Wuyun	/həuH/
Shao Rongfen	/xəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/həwH/
Li Rong	/xuH/
Wang Li	/xəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/xə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰoːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蔻
Reading #	1/1
No.	7500
Phonetic component	寇
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	蔻
Old Chinese	/*qʰoːs/

Definitions

蔻

1. Used in 豆蔻 (dòukòu).
2. Used in 蔻蔻 (kòukòu).
3. Used in 蔻丹 (kòudān).

Compounds

白豆蔻 (báidòukòu) 肉豆蔻 (ròudòukòu) 荳蔻／豆蔻

荳蔻年華／豆蔻年华 蔻丹 (kòudān) 豆蔻 (dòukòu)

豆蔻年華／豆蔻年华 豆蔻梢頭／豆蔻梢头

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔻 (khấu)

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