羖

羖 U+7F96, 羖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F96 ← 羕 [U+7F95] CJK Unified Ideographs 羗 → [U+7F97]

Translingual

Han character

羖 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿手竹弓水 (TQHNE), four-corner 8754₇, composition ⿰羊殳)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 951, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28450
• Dae Jaweon: page 1395, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3128, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7F96

Chinese

simp. and trad.		羖

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (股) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
股	*klaːʔ
羖	*klaːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaːʔ) : semantic 羊 + phonetic 夃 (OC *kaːʔ).

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) suggests that it is probably cognate with 羯 (OC *kad, “wether”), in which case it would be of Sino-Tibetan origin. Wang (1982) instead relates this word to 牯 (OC *kaːʔ, “male bovine”) and 豭 (OC *kraː, “boar”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ku³
    • Yale: gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gu²
    • Yale: gú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kuX

Rime
Character	羖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	公戸切
Baxter	kuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/koX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔX/
Li Rong	/koX/
Wang Li	/kuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.kʷˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羖
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ kuX ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.kʷˁaʔ/
English	ram
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	羖
Reading #	1/1
No.	4312
Phonetic component	股
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	古
Old Chinese	/*klaːʔ/

Definitions

羖

1. black ram

Compounds

• 五羖大夫

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03535

Japanese

Kanji

羖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こ (ko); く (ku)
• Kun: ひつじ (hitsuji)

Korean

Hanja

羖 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko, Yale ko)

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