# 媾

| 媾 | U+5ABE, &#23230; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ABE |
| ← 媽 [U+5ABD] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 媿 → [U+5ABF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

媾 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿廿月 (VTTB), four-corner 4545$_7$, composition ⿰女冓)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 268, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6597
* Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 9
* Unihan data for U+5ABE

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 溝 | *koː |
| 篝 | *koː |
| 鞲 | *koː |
| 韝 | *koː, *kʰoː |
| 褠 | *koː |
| 冓 | *koː, *koːs |
| 構 | *koːs |
| 購 | *koːs |
| 媾 | *koːs |
| 覯 | *koːs |
| 遘 | *koːs, *koːs |
| 煹 | *koːs |
| 搆 | *koːs |
| 講 | *kroːŋʔ |
| 耩 | *kroːŋʔ |
| 傋 | *kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ |
| 斠 | *kroːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *koːs) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gòu (gou$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gau$^3$ / kau$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gòu
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gòu
*** Wade–Giles: kou$^4$
*** Yale: gòu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gow
*** Palladius: гоу (gou)
*** Sinological IPA : /koʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gau$^3$ / kau$^3$
*** Yale: gau / kau
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gau$^3$ / kau$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: geo$^3$ / keo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɐu̯³³/, /kʰɐu̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: kuwH
Rime :
| Character | 媾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古候切 |
| Baxter | kuwH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kəu$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kəu$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kəu$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kəw$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ku$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kəu$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kə̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | gòu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gau$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 媾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gòu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kuw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*kˁ(r)o-s/ |
| English | 2nd marriage |
| 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 | 媾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4193 |
| Phonetic component | 冓 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遘 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːs/ |

### Definitions

媾
* (originally) to marry in a cousin marriage (to cement the relationship between families); (in general) to marry
* to dote on
* to make peace; to reach agreement; to negotiate peace
* to copulate; to have sexual intercourse

### Compounds

* 交媾 (jiāogòu)
* 姻媾
* 媾合 (gòuhé)
* 媾和 (gòuhé)
* 淫媾

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* sex, coitus
* intimacy, relation

#### Readings

* Go-on: く (ku)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: よしみ (yoshimi)

#### Compounds

* 交媾(こうこう) (kōkō): sexual intercourse

## Korean
### Hanja

媾 (eum 구 (gu))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

媾: Hán Nôm readings: cấu
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#### References

* Nom Foundation