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兀 U+5140, 兀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5140
← 儿
[U+513F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 允 →
[U+5141]
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⺎ U+2E8E, ⺎
CJK RADICAL LAME ONE
← ⺍
[U+2E8D] 		CJK Radicals Supplement ⺏ →
[U+2E8F]
兀 U+FA0C, 兀
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA0C
← 廓
[U+FA0B] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 嗀 →
[U+FA0D]
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兀

Translingual

Han character

兀 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一山 (MU), four-corner 10210, composition ⿱一儿)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 123, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1337
  • Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 264, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5140
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (兀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Etymology 1

“to cut off the feet”
Perhaps Austroasiatic; compare Mon ကုတ် (kut, “to cut off; to amputate”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

兀

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) towering
    突兀  ―  tūwù  ―  lofty
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) bald
    • 蜀山兀，阿房出。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
      From: 825, Du Mu, 《阿房宮賦》 "Rhapsody on the Epang Palace", translated by Campbell (2008).
      Shǔ shān wù, Ēpáng chū. [Pinyin]
      Only once the hills of Shu had been denuded of their trees, did Epang Palace begin to take shape.
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cut off the feet
    兀者 [Classical Chinese]  ―  wùzhě [Pinyin]  ―  person that has had one of their feet cut
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) unpeaceful
  5. a surname

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

兀

  1. only used in 兀禿／兀秃

Compounds

  • 兀兀禿禿 / 兀兀秃秃
  • 兀禿 / 兀秃

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Turkic, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ol (Zhang and Zhang, 2007). Compare Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞 (ul¹), Turkish o (“he, she, it; that”), Uyghur ئۇ (u, “he, she, it; that”), Chuvash вӑл (văl, “he, she, it”) and Karakhanid اُلْ (ol, “he, she, it; that”). First recorded in the Song Dynasty:

前世謂「阿睹」，猶今諺云「兀底」；「寧馨」，猶「恁地」也；皆不指一物一事之詞。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
前世谓「阿睹」，犹今谚云「兀底」；「宁馨」，犹「恁地」也；皆不指一物一事之词。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Song Dynasty, 莊綽, 《雞肋編》
Qiánshì wèi “ādǔ”, yóu jīn yàn yún “wùde”; “níngxīn”, yóu “nèndì” yě; jiē bù zhǐ yī wù yī shì zhī cí. [Pinyin]
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Pronunciation

Definitions

兀

  1. (dialectal Mandarin, Jin) that [from 11th c.]
    兀裡／兀里 [Jin]  ―  veh4 le [Wiktionary]  ―  over there
    Antonym: 這 / 这
  2. (archaic) Used before pronouns to form bisyllabic pronouns.
    兀那 [Written Vernacular Chinese]  ―  wùnà [Pinyin]  ―  that
    兀誰／兀谁 [Written Vernacular Chinese]  ―  wùshéi [Pinyin]  ―  who
Synonyms
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Compounds

Etymology 4

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Pronunciation

Definitions

兀

  1. (Northern Min) that
Synonyms
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Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Definitions

兀

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) still; yet

Compounds

Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of 兀 – see 尢 (“lame; crippled”).
(This character is a variant form of 尢).

References

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Kanji

兀

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. towering; high
  2. bald

Readings

  • On (unclassified): こつ (kotsu)、ごつ (gotsu)
  • Kun: たかい (takai, 兀い)、はげる (hageru)、あしきる (ashikiru)
  • Nanori: たかし (takashi)

Etymology 1

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Noun

兀(ごつ) • (gotsu) 

  1. (uncommon, archaic) bald (person); treeless (landscape)
    • 1741, Shin Usugusa Monogatari, Jōruri [Commentary]:
      はげたつむりは兀(ゴツ)として
      hageta tsumuri wa gotsu to shite
      his bare head is bald

Korean

Hanja

兀 (eum 올 (ol))

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Vietnamese

Han character

兀: Hán Nôm readings: ngột, ngát, ngút

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