堠

堠 U+5820, 堠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5820 ← 堟 [U+581F] CJK Unified Ideographs 堡 → [U+5821]

Translingual

Han character

堠 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 土人弓大 (GONK), four-corner 4713₄, composition ⿰土侯)

1. earthen watchtower
2. battlements, battlemented walls

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 233, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5253
• Dae Jaweon: page 470, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 465, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5820

Chinese

trad.		堠
simp. #		堠

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
緱	*koː, *koː
侯	*ɡoː
喉	*ɡoː
猴	*ɡoː
瘊	*ɡoː
篌	*ɡoː
糇	*ɡoː
帿	*ɡoː
睺	*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
矦	*ɡoː
餱	*ɡoː
翭	*ɡoː
葔	*ɡoː
鄇	*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
鍭	*ɡoː, *ɡoːs
鯸	*ɡoː
候	*ɡoːs
堠	*ɡoːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡoːs): semantic 土 (“soil; earth”) + phonetic 侯 (OC *ɡoː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hòu (hou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hòu
    • Wade–Giles: hou⁴
    • Yale: hòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: how
    • Palladius: хоу (xou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hau⁶
    • Yale: hauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: heo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: huwH

Rime
Character	堠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	胡遘切
Baxter	huwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦəuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦəuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦəwH/
Li Rong	/ɣuH/
Wang Li	/ɣəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hau6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡoːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	堠
Reading #	1/1
No.	5155
Phonetic component	侯
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	𠋫
Old Chinese	/*ɡoːs/
Notes	見漢簡

Definitions

堠

1. earthen watchtower

Compounds

• 堠吏
• 堠程
• 堠鼓
• 斥堠

Japanese

Kanji

堠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. battlements
2. battlemented walls

Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)、く (ku)
• Kun: ものみ (monomi)

Korean

Hanja

堠 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu)

1. high ground, heights
2. watchtower