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(Kangxi radical 19, +5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土戈大尸 (GIKS) or 難土戈大尸 (XGIKS), four-corner 47720, composition)

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠛗𠉨𠛗𠉨𠞏

| | Old Chinese | | | -------------------------------- | ---------------------- | | | *kʰal | | | *kʰal, *kʰas, *kʰab | | | *kʰɯ, *kʰɯ, *kʰab | | | *kaʔ, *kʰaʔ | | | *kʰa | | | *kʰa | | | *kʰa | | | *kʰa, *kʰas, *kʰab | | | *kʰa, *kʰl'aːb | | | *kʰaʔ, *kʰas | | | *kʰaʔ, *kʰas | | | *kʰas | | | *kaːb, *kab | | | *kab, *kab | | | *kab | | | *kab, *kab | | | *kʰab |

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kab, *kab): phonetic (OC *kʰaʔ, *kʰas) + semantic (“power, force”)

“(Buddhism) disaster”

Short for 劫波 (jiébō), from Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa).




BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
ModernBeijing(Pinyin) jié
MiddleChinese kjæp
OldChinese /*k(r)ap/
English rob
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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 6438 10694
Phoneticcomponent
Rimegroup
Rimesubdivision 1 1
CorrespondingMC rime
OldChinese /*kab/ /*kab/
Notes kalpa kalpa

  1. to coerce; to compel; to threaten
  2. to rob; to plunder; to take by force
  3. (Buddhism) Short for 劫波 (jiébō, “kalpa”).
    1. (hyperbolic) extremely long time
    2. (figurative, by extension) disaster; calamity; catastrophe

Others:

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. intimidate
  2. aeon, eon
Kanji in this term
こうJinmeiyō
on'yomi

/kopu/ → /kofu/ → */kowu/ → /koː/

From Middle Chinese (MC kjaep), short form of 劫波 (MC kjaep pa), itself a transliteration of Sanskrit कल्प (kalpa, “aeon”).

劫(こう) () ←**こふ** (kofu)?

  1. (Buddhism) kalpa: a unit of time in Buddhist cosmology

劫(こう) () ←**こふ** (kofu)?

  1. (go) a position in which two alternating stones can be captured and recaptured indefinitely
Kanji in this term
ごうJinmeiyō
on'yomi

/ɡopu/ → /ɡofu/ → */ɡowu/ → /ɡoː/

Possibly a shift from above. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

劫(ごう) () ←**ごふ** (gofu)?

  1. (Buddhism) kalpa: a unit of time in Buddhist cosmology
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

From Middle Chinese (MC kjaep). Recorded as Middle Korean /겁〮 (kép) (Yale: kep) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource

(eumhun 위협할 (wihyeophal geop))

  1. hanja form? of (“coerce; threaten”) [affix]
  2. hanja form? of (“kalpa”) [noun]

劫: Hán Nôm readings: kiếp

  1. (Buddhism) kalpa