窬
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Translingual
Han character
窬 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金人一弓 (JCOMN), four-corner 30221, composition ⿱穴俞)
- hole in a wall
References
- KangXi: page 867, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25582
- Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 23
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2735, character 11
- Unihan data for U+7AAC
Chinese
| trad. | 窬 | |
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| simp. # | 窬 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (俞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| 褕 | *low, *lo |
| 偷 | *l̥ʰoː |
| 媮 | *l̥ʰoː, *lo |
| 鍮 | *l̥ʰoː |
| 緰 | *l'oː, *slo |
| 牏 | *l'oː, *l'os, *lo |
| 揄 | *l'oː, *l'oːʔ, *lu, *lo |
| 窬 | *l'oː, *l'oːs, *lo |
| 歈 | *l'oː, *lo |
| 俞 | *l̥ʰus, *lo |
| 隃 | *slo, *hljo, *hljos, *lo |
| 毹 | *sro |
| 輸 | *hljo, *hljos |
| 鄃 | *hljo, *lo |
| 腧 | *hljos |
| 逾 | *lo |
| 榆 | *lo |
| 愉 | *lo |
| 渝 | *lo |
| 瑜 | *lo |
| 蕍 | *lo |
| 覦 | *lo, *los |
| 蝓 | *lo |
| 踰 | *lo |
| 崳 | *lo |
| 羭 | *lo |
| 堬 | *lo |
| 瘉 | *lo, *loʔ |
| 萮 | *lo |
| 騟 | *lo |
| 愈 | *loʔ |
| 貐 | *loʔ |
| 喻 | *los |
| 諭 | *los |
Etymology
- hole in a wall
- Austroasiatic. Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *luh (“hole”), whence Vietnamese lỗ, Khmer ធ្លុះ (thluh), etc. (Schuessler, 2007)
Pronunciation
Definitions
窬
- (literary) hole in a wall
- (literary) to bore; to dig out
- 埏埴而為器，窬木而為舟，鑠鐵而為刃，鑄金而為鍾，因其可也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Huainanzi, 2nd century BCE
- Yán zhí ér wèi qì, yú mù ér wèi zhōu, shuò tiě ér wèi rèn, zhù jīn ér wèi zhōng, yīn qí kě yě. [Pinyin]
- One moistens clay to make vessels, digs out wood to make boats, smelts iron to make blades, cast metal to make bells by making use of their potentials.
埏埴而为器，窬木而为舟，铄铁而为刃，铸金而为钟，因其可也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (alt. form 踰／逾) to climb over (a wall)
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
窬
- small door or window
- hole in the wall
- to cut through a wall
- dig or bore hole
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