媾

媾	U+5ABE, 媾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABE

← 媽
[U+5ABD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媿 →
[U+5ABF]

Translingual

Han character

媾 (radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 4545₇, composition ⿰女冓)

References

KangXi: page 268, character 28
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1070, character 9
Unihan data for U+5ABE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冓) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	koː, kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	koː, koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	koːs, koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	kroːŋʔ, qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *koːs) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gòu (gou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³, kau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: gòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
  - Wade–Giles: kou⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
  - IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gau³, kau³
  - Yale: gau, kau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau³, kau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: geo³, keo³
  - IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /kəu^H/▼

Rime
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kəu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəw^H/
Li Rong	/ku^H/
Wang Li	/kəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*koːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu
Middle Chinese	‹ kuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ(r)o-s/
English	2nd marriage
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	媾
Reading #	1/1
No.	4193
Phonetic component	冓
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	遘
Old Chinese	/*koːs/

Definitions

媾

(originally) to marry in a cousin marriage (to cement the relationship between families); (in general) to marry
to dote on
to make peace; to reach agreement; to negotiate peace
to copulate; to have sexual intercourse

Compounds

交媾 (jiāogòu)
姻媾

媾合 (gòuhé)
媾和 (gòuhé)

淫媾

Japanese

Kanji

媾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

sex, coitus
intimacy, relation

Readings

Go-on: く (ku)
Kan-on: こう (kō)
Kun: よしみ (yoshimi)

Compounds

交 (こう)媾 (こう) (kōkō): sexual intercourse

Korean

Hanja

媾 (eum 구 (gu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

媾: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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References

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