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孔 U+5B54, 孔
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B54
← 孓
[U+5B53] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 孕 →
[U+5B55]

Translingual

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Han character

孔 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓木山 (NDU), four-corner 12410, composition ⿰子乚)

Derived characters

  • 吼, 𪣂, 𢗵, 𢪬, 犼, 𭥛, 𦙥, 𣏺, 𤆺, 𬗆, 𧉔, 𫁎, 𡰼, 芤, 𥥅, 𩫂, 𡵾, 𥤾, 𡦀

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 277, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 544, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1008, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5B54
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 孔, Western Zhou ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (孔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Bronze inscriptions: Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 丿 (“opening”) + 子 (“child”) – opening in the skull of a newborn, i.e. fontanelle.

Etymology

"hole"
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”). 孔 (OC *kʰloːŋʔ, “hole”) is probably the endoactive derivation of 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, “hollow; empty”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan ཁུང (khung, “hole”), Jingpho ladi hku (lədî hkū, “nostril”), Chepang घाङ् (gʰaŋ, “hole”), Burmese အခေါင်း (a.hkaung:, “hollow place; cavity”), Naxi kho³³ (“cave; hole; pit”) (STEDT).
"peacock"
Starostin reconstructs 孔 (OC *khōŋ) and compares it to Proto-Vietic *k-voːŋ. Compare also Semai kuwok, Semnam kwɔːŋ.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kháng - vernacular;
  • khóng - literary.
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Definitions

孔

  1. hole; aperture; opening
    鼻孔  ―  bíkǒng  ―  nostril
  2. classifier for cave dwellings, oil wells, etc..
  3. (literary, for irrigation, drainage) ditch; trench; canal; channel
  4. (literary, or in compounds) profound; far-reaching
  5. (literary, or in compounds) unimpeded; unblocked
  6. (literary, or in compounds) large
  7. (literary, or in compounds) fine
  8. (literary, or in compounds) very; extremely
  9. (literary, or in compounds) peacock; peafowl
  10. a surname
    孔祥熙  ―  Kǒng Xiángxī  ―  H. H. Kung (Chinese banker and politician)
  11. (specifically) short for 孔子 (Kǒngzǐ, “Confucius”)
    祭孔  ―  jì Kǒng  ―  worship of Confucius
    批林批孔  ―  pī Lín pī Kǒng  ―  (historical) Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius movement
  12. (Quanzhou Hokkien) classifier for partitioned grid units in a tool.

Synonyms

  • (hole):
Dialectal synonyms of 孔 (“hole”) [map]
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  • (very):
  • (peacock): 孔雀 (kǒngquè)
  • (Confucius):

Compounds

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Kanji

孔

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. cavity

Readings

  • Go-on: く (ku)、くう (kū)
  • Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: あな (ana, 孔)、はなはだ (hanahada, 孔だ)

Compounds

Etymology

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For pronunciation and definitions of 孔 – see the following entry.
【穴あな】6
[noun] hole
[noun] opening, aperture
[noun] pit
[noun] cave, cavern
[noun] lair, den, burrow
[noun] loss, deficit
[noun] flaw, defect
(This term, 孔, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

孔 (eumhun 구멍 공 (gumeong gong))

  1. hanja form? of 공 (“opening, hole”)

Vietnamese

Han character

孔: Hán Nôm readings: khổng, hỏng, hổng, khỏng, khủng

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