See also:
U+6BEC, 毬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BEC

[U+6BEB]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6BED]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 82, +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹山戈十水 (HUIJE), four-corner 23713, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 593, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16837
  • Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1998, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6BEC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kus
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu, *qʰu
絿 *ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu
*ɡu, *ko
*ɡu

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“ball, globe, orb; sphere; etc.”).
(This character, , is a variant form of .)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. ball
  2. bur; husk; cone

Readings

  • Go-on: (gu)
  • Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)
  • Kun: まり (mari, ); いが (iga, )

Korean

Hanja

(gu) (hangeul , revised gu, McCuneReischauer ku, Yale kwu)

  1. ball, anything round, sphere

Vietnamese

Han character

(cầu)

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References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
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