# 矍

| 矍 | U+77CD, &#30669; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-77CD |
| ← 矌 [U+77CC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 矎 → [U+77CE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

矍 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+15, 20 strokes, cangjie input 月山人土水 (BUOGE), four-corner 6640$_7$, composition ⿱瞿又 or ⿱䀠隻)
* look about in fright or alarm

#### Derived characters

* 彏, 戄, 攫, 欔, 玃, 䂄, 矡, 籰, 蠼, 𧮞, 貜, 躩, 䢲, 䣤, 钁(䦆)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 820, character 17
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23792
* Dae Jaweon: page 1232, character 9
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2520, character 13
* Unihan data for U+77CD

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 钁 | *kʷaɡ |
| 攫 | *kʷaɡ |
| 矍 | *kʷaɡ |
| 躩 | *kʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ, *kʰʷaɡ |
| 玃 | *kʷaɡ |
| 貜 | *kʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ |
| 彏 | *kʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ |
| 戄 | *ɡʷaɡ, *ɡʷaɡ, *qʰʷaɡ |
| 籰 | *ɢʷaɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic and semantic 瞿 (OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa, “started; vigilant”) + 又 (a hand catching a bird 隹).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jué (jue$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fok$^3$ / gwok$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiok / kiak
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jué
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyué
*** Wade–Giles: chüeh$^2$
*** Yale: jywé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
*** Palladius: цзюэ (czjue)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fok$^3$ / gwok$^3$
*** Yale: fok / gwok
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fok$^8$ / gwok$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fog$^3$ / guog$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɔːk̚³/, /kʷɔːk̚³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiok
*** Tâi-lô: kiok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kiog
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɔk̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kiɔk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiak
*** Tâi-lô: kiak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kiag
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiak̚³²/
* Middle Chinese: kjwak
Rime :
| Character | 矍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 藥 (108) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 居縛切 |
| Baxter | kjwak |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʉɐk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷiɐk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kiuɑk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kuak̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kiuak̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭak̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kiwak̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jue |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwok$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʷ(r)ak/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 矍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jué |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kjwak › |
| Old Chinese | /*C.qʷ(r)ak/ |
| English | anxious look |
| 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 | 矍 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7265 |
| Phonetic component | 矍 |
| Rime group | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 玃 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷaɡ/ |

### Definitions

矍
* look about in fright or alarm

#### Compounds

* 矍然
* 矍矍
* 矍鑠／矍铄 (juéshuò)

### References

* “矍”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* surprise and confusion

#### Readings

* Go-on: かく (kaku)
* Kan-on: きゃく (kyaku)
* Kun: おどろき (odoroki)

## Korean
### Hanja

矍 (eum 확 (hwak))
* look about in fright or alarm