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See also:
U+81A0, 膠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81A0

[U+819F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+81A1]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 130, +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月尸一竹 (BSMH), four-corner 77222, composition)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 993, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29841
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1445, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2109, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+81A0

Chinese

trad.
simp. *
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Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw) : semantic (meat; flesh) + phonetic (OC *ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation


Note:
  • gĕu/gău - literary;
  • gă - vernacular.
Note:
  • ka - vernacular;
  • kau - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Initial () (28) (29) (28)
Final () (90) (90) (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () II II II
Fanqie
Baxter kaew khaew kaewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠau/ /kʰˠau/ /kˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚau/ /kʰᵚau/ /kᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kau/ /kʰau/ /kauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨw/ /kʰaɨw/ /kaɨwH/
Li
Rong
/kau/ /kʰau/ /kauH/
Wang
Li
/kau/ /kʰau/ /kauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kau/ /kʰau/ /kauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiāo qiāo jiào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaau1 haau1 gaau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiāo jiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ kæw › ‹ kæwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k]ˁriw/ /*[k]ˁriwʔ/
English glue glue

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
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 8350 8354 8355
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krɯːw/ /*krɯːws/ /*kʰrɯːw/
Notes

Definitions

  1. glue; adhesive; gum; resin
  2. rubber (material)
  3. to glue; to adhere
  4. sticky; gluey
  5. (Cantonese) plastic
  6. Short for 膠州胶州 (Jiāozhōu).
  7. Short for 膠澳胶澳. (former name of 青島青岛 (Qīngdǎo))
  8. (Wenzhounese) swim bladder

Synonyms

  • (rubber):
  • (plastic):
  • (swim bladder):

Compounds

Descendants

  • Burmese: ကော် (kau)
  • Khmer: កាវ (kaaw)
  • Lao: ກາວ (kāo)
  • Thai: กาว (gaao)
  • Vietnamese: keo (non-Sino-Vietnamese)

Etymology 2

Near homophone of the vulgar word (gau1).

Pronunciation

Definitions

(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (originally Internet slang) stupid; foolish; dumb
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  gaau1 kek6 [Jyutping]  ―  stupid soap operas
  2. (Internet slang) stupidness; stupidity (Classifier: c)
  3. (originally Internet slang, offensive) idiot; retard
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  zo2 gaau1 [Jyutping]  ―  leftard
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  baa1 gaau1 [Jyutping]  ―  bus fans with bad behaviours
  4. (originally Internet slang, possibly offensive) nerd; enthusiast
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  goek3 gaau1 [Jyutping]  ―  foot fetish
    [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  baa1 gaau1 [Jyutping]  ―  bus enthusiast
  5. (chiefly Internet slang) to act stupidly; to act foolishly

Compounds

See also

  • :o) (commonly associated with the term)

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. glue
  2. isinglass

Readings

  • Go-on: きょう (kyō)きやう (kyau, historical)
  • Kan-on: こう ()かう (kau, historical)
  • Kun: にかわ (nikawa, )

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
にかわ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
にかわ
[noun] glue
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

(gyo) (hangeul , revised gyo, McCune–Reischauer kyo, Yale kyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: giao, keo

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