夅

See also: 降 and 舛
夅 U+5905, 夅
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5905
← 处
[U+5904] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 夆 →
[U+5906]

Translingual

Han character

夅 (radical 34, 夂+3 in Chinese and Korean, 夂+4 in Japanese, 6 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 竹水手 (HEQ) or X竹水手 (XHEQ), four-corner 27504, composition ⿱夂㐄)

Derived characters
  • 降 (Orthodox modern form)

References
  • KangXi: page 244, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5695
  • Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 868, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5905

Chinese

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (夅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
贛 *kluːmʔ, *kluːms, *kromʔ, *kloːms
灨 *kluːmʔ, *kluːms
竷 *kʰluːms
戇 *kr'oːms, *qʰloːms
洚 *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ, *ɡloːŋ, *ɡluːŋ
降 *kruːŋs, *ɡruːŋ
絳 *kruːŋs
栙 *ɡruːŋ
夅 *ɡruːŋ
跭 *ɡruːŋ
隆 *ɡ·ruːŋ
癃 *ɡ·ruːŋ
窿 *ɡ·ruːŋ
霳 *ɡ·ruːŋ

Pictogram (象形) – feet pointing down, descending (feet at top, legs pointing down – upside-down). Compare footprints in 舛, and foot in 夂, 夊.

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 夅 – see 降 (“to fall; to drop; to descend; to come down; to visit; to honour with one's presence; etc.”).
(This character, 夅, is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as an ancient form of 降.)

References

Japanese

Kanji
夅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings
  • On (unclassified): こう (kō)
  • Kun: おおりる (ōriru); おおろす (ōrosu); ふうる (fūru)

Korean

Hanja

夅 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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