渠

渠 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水尸木 (ESD), four-corner 3190₄, composition ⿱洰木)

• KangXi: page 633, character 48
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17764
• Dae Jaweon: page 1040, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1645, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6E20

Historical forms of the character 渠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡa) : semantic 水 (“water”) + abbreviated phonetic 榘 (OC *kʷaʔ).

“ditch; canal; drain”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ka ~ *k(r)a (“path; way; channel; ditch”); probably the same word as 衢 (OC *ɡʷa, “passage”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan རྐ (rka, “gutter; channel; furrow”).

third-person pronoun

Attested since 4th to 5th century CE, preserved in many central and southern dialects (Schuessler, 2007). See 佢.

渠

1. ditch; canal; drain

   渠務 / 渠务  ―  qúwù  ―  drainage services

2. ^† big; huge
3. A surname​.

渠

1. (literary or dialectal) third-person pronoun; he, she, it

   問渠哪得清如許，為有源頭活水來。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   问渠哪得清如许，为有源头活水来。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: c. 12th century, 朱熹 (Zhu Xi), 觀書有感

   Wèn qú nǎ dé qīng rú xǔ, wèi yǒu yuántóu huóshuǐ lái. [Pinyin]

   [I want to] ask it [the pond] why it can be so clear. It is because running water continuously flows in.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): きょ (kyo)
• Kun: みぞ (mizo, 渠); かれ (kare, 渠); なんぞ (nanzo, 渠ぞ)

渠 (eum 거 (geo))

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渠: Hán Nôm readings: cừ, gừa, khờ, cự

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