淈

淈 U+6DC8, 淈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DC8 ← 淇 [U+6DC7] CJK Unified Ideographs 淉 → [U+6DC9]

Translingual

Han character

淈 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水尸山山 (ESUU), four-corner 3717₇, composition ⿰氵屈)

1. to muddy
2. to mess up, mismanage, bungle, confuse, muddle
3. (of water) to circulate
4. to be dried up, to be used up, to be exhausted

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17622
• Dae Jaweon: page 1031, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1664, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6DC8

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淈

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
聉	*r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅	*kljods
祟	*sqʰluds
出	*kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁	*ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪	*qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀	*ŋr'uːd
袦	*ŋr'oːd
咄	*ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮	*sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙	*kljod
炪	*kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘	*ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯	*l'uːd
啒	*kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈	*kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟	*kʰluːd
泏	*kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀	*kʰluːd, *ɡlud
胐	*kʰluːd
窋	*ʔl'ud
絀	*ʔl'ud
黜	*l̥ʰud
屈	*klud, *kʰlud
趉	*klud
鶌	*klud
詘	*kʰlud
倔	*ɡlud
崛	*ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gǔ (gu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwat¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gǔ
    • Wade–Giles: ku³
    • Yale: gǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guu
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwat¹
    • Yale: gwāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gued¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwot, hot

Rime
Character	淈	淈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	沒 (56)	麧 (54)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古忽切	下没切
Baxter	kwot	hot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuət̚/	/ɦət̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kuot̚/	/ɦət̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuət̚/	/ɣət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwət̚/	/ɦət̚/
Li Rong	/kuət̚/	/ɣət̚/
Wang Li	/kuət̚/	/ɣət̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuət̚/	/ɣət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gu	hé
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwat1	hat6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kluːd/, /*ɡluːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淈	淈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1564	1570
Phonetic component	出	出
Rime group	物	物
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	骨	麧
Old Chinese	/*kluːd/	/*ɡluːd/

Definitions

淈

1. (archaic) to stir up; to muddy; to agitate; to disturb

   alt. forms: 滑, 汩, 抇

Compounds

• 汩淈
• 淈淈
• 淈濁 / 淈浊

Japanese

Kanji

淈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こつ (kotsu)、こち (kochi)
• Kun: にごす (nigosu)

Korean

Hanja

淈 • (gul) (hangeul 굴, revised gul, McCune–Reischauer kul, Yale kwul)

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