觳觫

Chinese

		(measure); frightened	tremble with fear
simp. and trad. (觳觫)		觳	觫

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): húsù

(Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˊ ㄙㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): huk⁶ cuk¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: húsù
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˊ ㄙㄨˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hwusuh
  - IPA ^(key): /xu³⁵ su⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: huk⁶ cuk¹
  - Yale: huhk chūk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: huk⁹ tsuk⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: hug⁶ cug¹
  - IPA ^(key): /hʊk̚² t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/

Verb

觳觫

(literary) to tremble in fear

Japanese

Kanji in this term
觳	觫
こく Hyōgaiji	そく Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

From Literary Chinese. From 孟子/梁惠王上.^[1]

Pronunciation

On’yomi
- (Tokyo) こくそく [kòkúsókú] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
- IPA^(key): [ko̞kɯ̟ᵝso̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

Adjectival noun

觳觫 (-tari inflection, hiragana こくそく, rōmaji kokusoku)

fearing for one's life

References

1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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