# 虢

| 虢 | U+8662, &#34402; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8662 |
| ← 虡 [U+8661] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 虣 → [U+8663] |

## Translingual
### Han character

虢 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月戈卜心弓 (BIYPN) or 月戈卜心山 (BIYPU), four-corner 2131$_7$, composition ⿰寽虎)

#### Derived characters

* 𢸗, 㶁, 𧭣

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1075, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32742
* Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2828, character 7
* Unihan data for U+8662

## Chinese

* 虢國

### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 虢
* Western Zhou
* Bronze inscriptions
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 攴 + 虎 or 爪 + 攴 + 虎.
One theory considers this character a pictogram (象形) : two hands (寽 (lǜ)) opening tiger (虎)'s fur, thus an original glyph of 鞹 (kuò). (Lin Yiguang)
Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷraːɡ) : phonetic 寽 (OC *rud) + semantic 虎 (“tiger”). However, this is not generally considered likely.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guó (guo$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kok / khek
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guó
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: guó
*** Wade–Giles: kuo$^2$
*** Yale: gwó
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gwo
*** Palladius: го (go)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯ɔ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gwik$^1$
*** Yale: gwīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gwik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: guig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷɪk̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kok
*** Tâi-lô: kok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kog
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kɔk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: dated in Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khek
*** Tâi-lô: khik
*** Phofsit Daibuun: qeg
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiɪk̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: kwaek
Rime :
| Character | 虢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 陌 (114) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 古伯切 |
| Baxter | kwaek |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kˠwæk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷᵚak̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuak̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwaɨjk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɐk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kwɐk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kwɐk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwak$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤrak/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʷraːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 虢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | guó |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kwæk › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ʷˁrak/ |
| English | (place name) |
| 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 | 虢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4764 |
| Phonetic component | 虢 |
| Rime group | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 格 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷraːɡ/ |

### Definitions

虢
* (historical) Name of several ancient feudal states that existed during the Western Zhou period (1050 to 770 B.C.E.) situated in modern-day Shaanxi and Hunan provinces and founded by relatives of the royal Ji family of the Zhou dynasty
* a surname

### Compounds

* 假途滅虢／假途灭虢
* 暮虢朝虞
* 虢滅虞亡／虢灭虞亡

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* name of ancient feudal State in Shaanxi and Hunan

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): かく (kaku)、きゃく (kyaku)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

虢: Hán Việt readings: quắc
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