# 筈

| 筈 | U+7B48, &#31560; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7B48 |
| ← 筇 [U+7B47] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 等 → [U+7B49] |

## Translingual
### Han character

筈 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹十口 (HHJR), four-corner 8860$_4$, composition ⿱𥫗舌)

#### Derived characters

* 𨬼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 882, character 22
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25990
* Dae Jaweon: page 1311, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2967, character 1
* Unihan data for U+7B48

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 咶 | *qʰroːds, *qʰroːds, *ɡroːd |
| 話 | *ɡroːds |
| 刮 | *kroːd |
| 鴰 | *kroːd, *koːd |
| 趏 | *kroːd, *kʰroːd |
| 舌 | *ɡroːd, *ɦbljed |
| 姡 | *ɡroːd, *ɡoːd |
| 頢 | *ɡroːd, *koːd |
| 括 | *koːd |
| 活 | *koːd, *ɡoːd |
| 适 | *koːd, *kʰoːd |
| 栝 | *koːd, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 佸 | *koːd, *ɡoːd |
| 髺 | *koːd |
| 聒 | *koːd |
| 銛 | *koːd, *slem, *l̥ʰeːmʔ |
| 葀 | *koːd |
| 懖 | *koːd |
| 筈 | *koːd, *kʰoːd |
| 萿 | *koːd |
| 蛞 | *kʰoːd |
| 闊 | *kʰoːd |
| 秳 | *ɡoːd |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kuò, guā (kuo$^4$, gua$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄛˋ, ㄍㄨㄚ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kut$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kuò
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄛˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kuò
*** Wade–Giles: kʻuo$^4$
*** Yale: kwò
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuoh
*** Palladius: ко (ko)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guā
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gua
*** Wade–Giles: kua$^1$
*** Yale: gwā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gua
*** Palladius: гуа (gua)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯ä⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kut$^3$
*** Yale: kut
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kut$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kud$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: kwat, khwat
Rime :
| Character | 筈 | 筈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 末 (64) | 末 (64) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 古活切 | 苦栝切 |
| Baxter | kwat | khwat |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kuɑt̚/ | /kʰuɑt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷɑt̚/ | /kʰʷɑt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuɑt̚/ | /kʰuɑt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwat̚/ | /kʰwat̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kuɑt̚/ | /kʰuɑt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kuɑt̚/ | /kʰuɑt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kuɑt̚/ | /kʰuɑt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guo | kuo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gut$^3$ | fut$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːd/, /*kʰoːd/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 筈 | 筈 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 7579 | 7582 |
| Phonetic component | 桰 | 桰 |
| Rime group | 月 | 月 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 括 | |
| Old Chinese | /*koːd/ | /*kʰoːd/ |
| Notes | 說文作栝 | |

### Definitions

筈
* (literary) arrow end; nock
    alt. forms: 栝

### Compounds

* 箭筈

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* notch of an arrow, nock
* "it should be so"

#### Readings

* Go-on: かち (kachi)
* Kan-on: かつ (katsu)
* Kun: やはず (yahazu, 筈)、はず (hazu, 筈)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 筈
* はず Jinmeiyō
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 弭
For pronunciation and definitions of 筈 – see the following entry. :
| 【はず】 | [noun] nock; the grooves that hold a bowstring on a bow, the notch that holds an arrow to the bowstring [noun] (sumo) a nock-shaped grip used in はず押(お)し (hazu oshi) [noun] as things should be; what is expected; that which should be so; must be; bound to be; expected to be [noun] (Okinawa) what may happen; as things could be Alternative spelling 弭 |
(This term, 筈, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

### References

* ↑ JWPce version 1.5.0 (February 10, 2005)

## Korean
### Hanja

筈 • (gwal) (hangeul 괄, revised gwal, McCune–Reischauer kwal, Yale kwal)

### References

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