郭公 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guōgōng
(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛㄍㄨㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwok3 gung1

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
  * Hanyu Pinyin: guōgōng
  * Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛㄍㄨㄥ
  * 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/

Middle Chinese: kwak kuwng
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
ModernBeijing(Pinyin)	guō	gōng	gōng
MiddleChinese	‹ kwak ›	‹ kuwng ›	‹ kuwng ›
OldChinese	/*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
Phoneticcomponent	郭	公
Rimegroup	鐸	東
Rimesubdivision	0	0
CorrespondingMC rime	郭	公
OldChinese	/*kʷaːɡ/	/*kloːŋ/

郭公

(literary) puppet
(literary) inadvertent omissions in text
(literary, originally onomatopoeia) cuckoo

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

カッコウ on Japanese Wikipedia

From Chinese 郭公 (guōgōng)[1]

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

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

common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus
Synonym: 閑古鳥 (kanko-dori)

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

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