痼

痼 U+75FC, 痼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75FC ← 痻 [U+75FB] CJK Unified Ideographs 痽 → [U+75FD]

Translingual

Han character

痼 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 大田十口 (KWJR), four-corner 0016₀, composition ⿸疒固)

1. chronic disease

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 775, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22285
• Dae Jaweon: page 1186, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2680, character 7
• Unihan data for U+75FC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		痼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (古) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
箇	*kaːls
個	*kaːls
居	*kɯ, *kas
橭	*kaː, *kʰaː
嫴	*kaː
姑	*kaː
辜	*kaː
酤	*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄	*kaː
鴣	*kaː
沽	*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬	*kaː, *kaːʔ
古	*kaːʔ
罟	*kaːʔ
估	*kaːʔ
鈷	*kaːʔ
詁	*kaːʔ
牯	*kaːʔ
故	*kaːs
固	*kaːs
稒	*kaːɡs
痼	*kaːɡs
錮	*kaːɡs
鯝	*kaːɡs
棝	*kaːɡs
凅	*kaːɡs
枯	*kʰaː
軲	*kʰaː
跍	*kʰaː
骷	*kʰaː
苦	*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫	*qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬	*ɡaː
瑚	*ɡaː
湖	*ɡaː
鶘	*ɡaː
猢	*ɡaː
醐	*ɡaː
糊	*ɡaː
箶	*ɡaː
蝴	*ɡaː
胡	*ɡaː
瓳	*ɡaː
怙	*ɡaːʔ
祜	*ɡaːʔ
岵	*ɡaːʔ
婟	*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛	*ɡaːʔ
据	*ka
裾	*ka
琚	*ka
椐	*ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋	*ka
蜛	*ka
崌	*ka
涺	*ka
腒	*ka, *ɡa
鋸	*kas
倨	*kas
踞	*kas
涸	*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kaːɡs) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 固 (OC *kaːs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gù (gu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gù
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gù
    • Wade–Giles: ku⁴
    • Yale: gù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guh
    • Palladius: гу (gu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gu³
    • Yale: gu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kuː³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kuH

Rime
Character	痼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古暮切
Baxter	kuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/kuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/koH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɔH/
Li Rong	/koH/
Wang Li	/kuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kaːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	痼
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gù
Middle Chinese	‹ kuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁa-s/
English	chronic (of illness)
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	痼
Reading #	1/1
No.	4232
Phonetic component	古
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	顧
Old Chinese	/*kaːɡs/

Definitions

痼

1. chronic disease
2. long-standing habit

Compounds

• 沉痼 (chéngù)
• 深痼
• 煙霞痼疾 / 烟霞痼疾
• 痼弊 (gùbì)
• 痼疾 (gùjí)
• 痼癖
• 痼習 / 痼习

Japanese

Kanji

痼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こ (ko)
• Kun: ながわず (nagawazu)、こびりつく (kobiritsuku)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 痼 (MC kuH). Recorded as Middle Korean 고 (kwo) (Yale: kwo) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ko̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [고]

Hanja

Wikisource

痼 (eumhun 고질 고 (gojil go))

1. hanja form^? of 고 (“chronic”)

Compounds

• 고벽 (痼癖, gobyeok)
• 고질 (痼疾, gojil)
• 고질병 (痼疾病, gojilbyeong)
• 고질적 (痼疾的, gojiljeok)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]