郭公

Chinese

(surname); outer city wall
 
just; honorable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
simp. and trad.
(郭公)		 郭 公

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 郭 公
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 鐸 (104) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 古博切 古紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kwɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʷɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kuɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kwak̚/ /kəwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kuɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kuɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kwɑk̚/ /kuŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 guo gōng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 郭 公 公
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 guō gōng gōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kwak › ‹ kuwng › ‹ kuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷˤak/ /*C.qˤoŋ/ /*C.qˤoŋ/
English outer wall impartial, just; public father; prince

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 郭 公
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 4752 4092
Phonetic
component		 郭 公
Rime
group		 鐸 東
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 郭 公
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷaːɡ/ /*kloːŋ/

Noun

郭公

  1. (literary) puppet
  2. (literary) inadvertent omissions in text
  3. (literary, originally onomatopoeia) cuckoo

Derived terms

  • 夏五郭公
  • 郭公夏五
  • 郭公真人

Japanese

Kanji in this term
郭 公
かく > かっ
Grade: S		 こう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Chinese 郭公[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

郭公 (hiragana かっこう, katakana カッコウ, rōmaji kakkō, historical hiragana くわくこう, historical katakana クワクコウ)

  1. a common cuckoo

References

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