弧

弧 U+5F27, 弧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F27
← 弦
[U+5F26] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 弨 →
[U+5F28]

Translingual

Han character

弧 (radical 57, 弓+5 in Chinese, 弓+6 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 弓竹女人 (NHVO), four-corner 12230, composition ⿰弓瓜)

References
  • KangXi: page 357, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9757
  • Dae Jaweon: page 674, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 993, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5F27

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 弧

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (瓜) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瓜 *kʷraː
坬 *kʷraːs
窊 *qʷraː, *qʷraːs
畖 *qʷraː
搲 *qʷraːs
攨 *qʷraːs
孤 *kʷaː
苽 *kʷaː
胍 *kʷaː
泒 *kʷaː
呱 *kʷaː
觚 *kʷaː
柧 *kʷaː
罛 *kʷaː
軱 *kʷaː
菰 *kʷaː
箛 *kʷaː
狐 *ɡʷaː
弧 *ɡʷlaː

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 弧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 戸吳切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuo/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦɔ/
Li
Rong		 /ɣo/
Wang
Li		 /ɣu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hú
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ʷˁa/
English bow; bend, curved

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 弧
Reading # 1/1
No. 4359
Phonetic
component		 瓜
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 胡
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷlaː/

Definitions

弧

  1. wooden bow
  2. arc, crescent

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji
弧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. arc

Readings
  • Go-on: ご (go)
  • Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
  • Kun: きゆみ (kiyumi, 弧)

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
弧
こ
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 孤 (hu, “arc”).

Pronunciation

Noun

弧 (hiragana こ, rōmaji ko)

  1. arc

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

弧 • (ho) (hangeul 호, McCune–Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

弧 (hồ)

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References
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