彀

彀	U+5F40, 彀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F40

← 弿
[U+5F3F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

彁 →
[U+5F41]

Translingual

Han character

彀 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE) or 難土弓竹弓 (XGNHN), four-corner 4724₇, composition ⿹𣪊弓)

enough, adequate
fully, quite

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 29
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9844
Dae Jaweon: page 678, character 20
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2161, character 9
Unihan data for U+5F40

Chinese

simp. and trad.		彀

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
彀	*koːɡs
鷇	*kʰoːɡs
瞉	*kʰoːɡs
豰	pɢroːɡ, qʰoːɡ
瑴	kroːɡ, koːɡ
愨	*kʰroːɡ
殼	*kʰroːɡ
觳	kʰroːɡ, ɡoːɡ
嗀	qʰroːɡ, qʰoːɡ
穀	*kloːɡ
糓	*kloːɡ
轂	*kloːɡ
榖	*kloːɡ
瀔	*koːɡ
縠	*ɡloːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
  - Wade–Giles: kou⁴
  - Yale: gòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
  - Palladius: гоу (gou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gau³
  - Yale: gau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: geo³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: kuwH

Rime
Character	彀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古候切
Baxter	kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kəu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəw^H/
Li Rong	/ku^H/
Wang Li	/kəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤ(r)ok-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*koːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁ(r)ok-s/
English	draw a bow to the full
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	彀
Reading #	1/1
No.	7413
Phonetic component	殻
Rime group	候
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːɡs/
Notes	原文弓在下

Definitions

彀

(literary) to draw a bow to the full
^† target
^† shooting range
^† good shooter
^‡ good
(dated) Alternative form of 夠／够 (gòu)

Compounds

不彀
不彀味
不能彀
入彀
張羅彀弓／张罗彀弓
彀中 (gòuzhōng)
彀率 (gòulǜ)
彀者
機彀／机彀
能彀 (nénggòu)
英雄入彀
落彀

Japanese

Kanji

彀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

enough
adequate fully
quite

Readings

On (unclassified): こう (kō); く (ku)

Korean

Hanja

彀 (eum 구 (gu))

draw a bow to the full
shoot a bow

Vietnamese

Han character

彀: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

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