逅

逅

逅 U+9005, 逅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9005 ← 逄 [U+9004] CJK Unified Ideographs 逆 → [U+9006]

Translingual

Han character

逅 (radical 162, 辵+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹一口 (YHMR), four-corner 3230₆, composition ⿺辶后)

References

• KangXi: page 1256, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38848
• Dae Jaweon: page 1741, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3830, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9005

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		逅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (后) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
垢	*koːʔ
詬	*koːʔ, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs
茩	*koːʔ
姤	*koːs
銗	*ɡoː
骺	*ɡoː
后	*ɡoːʔ, *ɡoːs
垕	*ɡoːʔ
郈	*ɡoːʔ
逅	*ɡoːs
鲘
缿	*ɡoːs, *ɡroːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡoːs) : semantic 辵 + phonetic 后 (OC *ɡoːʔ, *ɡoːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hòu, gòu

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ, ㄍㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: hòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: how
    • IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Pinyin: gòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
    • Wade–Giles: kou⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
    • IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hau⁶
    • Yale: hauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦəu^H/▼

Rime
Character	逅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡遘切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəwH/
Li Rong	/ɣuH/
Wang Li	/ɣəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hòu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤro-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	逅
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hòu
Middle Chinese	‹ huwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁro-s/
English	邂逅 xièhòu carefree (Odes 94.1– 2, 118.2)
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	逅
Reading #	1/1
No.	5171
Phonetic component	后
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	𠋫
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːs/

Definitions

逅

1. Only used in 邂逅 (xièhòu).

Compounds

邂逅 (xièhòu) 邂逅之緣／邂逅之缘

邂逅相逢

邂逅相遇

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Japanese

Kanji

逅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)
• Kun: あう (au, 逅う)

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Korean

Hanja

逅 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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