孤

孤 (radical 39, 子+5 in Chinese, 子+6 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 弓木竹女人 (NDHVO), four-corner 1243₀, composition ⿰子瓜)

• 𦋆, 箛, 𦣮, 菰, 𡍢, 𡦈, 𡦶, 𢮩, 𣔞, 𦁣, 𧍆, 𨂗, 𨔌, 𩸰, 𪂮, 𪂲, 𪧄, 𪽵, 𫛈

• KangXi: page 279, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6966
• Dae Jaweon: page 547, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1014, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5B64

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kʷaː) : semantic 子 (“child”) + phonetic 瓜 (OC *kʷraː).

孤

1. orphaned; parentless
2. alone; solitary
3. orphan
4. (usually by an emperor or a king) I

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. solitude, alone
2. orphan

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kun: みなしご (minashigo, 孤); ひとり (hitori, 孤り)

From Middle Chinese 孤 (ku).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) こ​ [kóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ko̞]

孤 (hiragana こ, rōmaji ko)

1. an orphan
2. solitude

Jukujikun kanji use for the term みなしご, itself a compound of 身 (mi, “identity, family”) + 無 (nashi, “none, without”) + 子 (ko, “child”). The final syllable's ko reading changes to go due to rendaku (連濁).

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mʲina̠ɕiɡo̞]
• IPA^(key): /mi.na.si.ɡo/, [minäɕiɡo̞], [minäɕiŋo̞]

• 孤児

孤 (hiragana みなしご, rōmaji minashigo)

1. orphan

孤 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko)

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• 孤兒院 (고아원, goawon, “orphanage”)

孤 (cô, co, còi, côi, go, gò)

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