See also:
U+6398, 掘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6398

[U+6397]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6399]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 64, +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手尸山山 (QSUU), four-corner 57072, composition )

Derived characters edit

  • 𫁗

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 438, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12264
  • Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1909, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6398

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal scriptTranscribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ɡlod, *ɡlud) : semantic (hand; action) + phonetic (OC *klud, *kʰlud).

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-(k/g)wa-t (to dig out; to scoop out), cognate to Tibetan རྐོད་པ (rkod pa), རྐོ་བ (rko ba, to dig; to hoe) (STEDT). Possibly related to (OC *kʷeːd, “to dig an outlet for water; to burst out”).

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
VarietyLocation
MandarinBeijing/t͡ɕyɛ³⁵/
Harbin/t͡ɕyɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin/t͡ɕye⁴⁵/
Jinan/t͡ɕyə⁴²/
Qingdao/t͡ɕyə²¹³/
Zhengzhou/t͡ɕyɛ²⁴/
Xi'an/t͡ɕyɛ²¹/
Xining/t͡ɕyu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan/t͡ɕye¹³/
Lanzhou/t͡ɕyə⁵³/
Ürümqi/t͡ɕyɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan/t͡ɕye²¹³/
Chengdu/t͡ɕʰyo³¹/
/t͡ɕʰy³¹/
Guiyang/t͡ɕʰiu²¹/
/t͡ɕie²¹/
Kunming/t͡ɕʰiu³¹/
Nanjing/t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hefei/t͡ɕyɐʔ⁵/
JinTaiyuan/t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao/t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot/t͡ɕyaʔ⁴³/
WuShanghai/d͡ʑyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou/d͡ʑyəʔ³/
Hangzhou/d͡zz̩ʷəʔ²/
Wenzhou/d͡ʑy²¹³/
HuiShexian/t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi
XiangChangsha/t͡ɕye²⁴/
Xiangtan/t͡ɕyæ²⁴/
GanNanchang
HakkaMeixian/kʰiut̚¹/
Taoyuan/kʰut̚⁵⁵/
CantoneseGuangzhou/kwɐt̚²/
Nanning/kʷet̚²²/
Hong Kong/kwɐt̚²/
MinXiamen (Hokkien)/kut̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min)/kuʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min)/ky⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew)/kuk̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese)/kut̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading #1/22/2
Initial () (30) (30)
Final () (60) (68)
Tone (調)Checked (Ø)Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)ClosedClosed
Division ()IIIIII
Fanqie
Baxtergjutgjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨut̚//ɡʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiut̚//ɡʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiuət̚//ɡiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gut̚//guat̚/
Li
Rong
/ɡiuət̚//ɡiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭuət̚//ɡĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯uət̚//gi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jué
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwat6gyut6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading #1/22/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
juéjué
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjut ›‹ gjwot ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ut//*[ɡ]ot/
Englishdig out (earth)dig out (earth)

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
Reading #2/21/2
No.15861559
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
23
Corresponding
MC rime
𧤼
Old
Chinese
/*ɡlud//*ɡlod/

Definitions edit

  1. to dig; to excavate
  2. (Hakka) to scratch (with nails, claws)
Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“cave”).
(This character is an obsolete form of ).

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to dig

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(gul, gwol) (hangeul , , revised gul, gwol, McCune–Reischauer kul, kwŏl, Yale kwul, kwel)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: quật, oặt, quặt, quất, quịt, quát, quạt

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