郭公

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guōgōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwok³ gung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guōgōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guogong
    • Wade–Giles: kuo¹-kung¹
    • Yale: gwō-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guogong
    • Palladius: гогун (gogun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯ɔ⁵⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwok³ gung¹
    • Yale: gwok gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwok⁸ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guog³ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɔːk̚³ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwak kuwng

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
Baxter	kwak	kuwng
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/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwɑk̚/	/kuŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guo	gōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwok3	gung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤak  C.qˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaːɡ  kloːŋ/

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	/*kʷˁak/	/*C.qˁoŋ/	/*C.qˁoŋ/
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 (guōgōng)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かっこー [káꜜkkòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠k̚ko̞ː]

Noun

郭(かっ)公(こう) or 郭公(カッコウ) • (kakkō) ^{←くわくこう (kwakukou)?}

1. common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus

   Synonym: 閑古鳥 (kanko-dori)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).