# 彀

| 彀 | U+5F40, &#24384; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F40 |
| ← 弿 [U+5F3F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 彁 → [U+5F41] |

## Translingual
### Han character

彀 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土弓竹弓水 (GNHNE) or 難土弓竹弓 (XGNHN), four-corner 4724$_7$, composition ⿹𣪊弓)
* enough, adequate
* fully, quite

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 360, character 29
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9844
* Dae Jaweon: page 678, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2161, character 9
* Unihan data for U+5F40

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 彀 | *koːɡs |
| 鷇 | *kʰoːɡs |
| 瞉 | *kʰoːɡs |
| 豰 | *pɢroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ |
| 瑴 | *kroːɡ, *koːɡ |
| 愨 | *kʰroːɡ |
| 殼 | *kʰroːɡ |
| 觳 | *kʰroːɡ, *ɡoːɡ |
| 嗀 | *qʰroːɡ, *qʰoːɡ |
| 穀 | *kloːɡ |
| 糓 | *kloːɡ |
| 轂 | *kloːɡ |
| 榖 | *kloːɡ |
| 瀔 | *koːɡ |
| 縠 | *ɡloːɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gòu (gou$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gau$^3$
* 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$^3$
*** Yale: gau
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gau$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: geo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɐu̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: kuwH
Rime :
| Character | 彀 |
| 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): /*[k]ˤ(r)ok-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːɡs/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 彀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gòu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kuw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ˁ(r)ok-s/ |
| English | draw a bow to the full |
| 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 | 彀 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7413 |
| Phonetic component | 殻 |
| Rime group | 候 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遘 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːɡs/ |
| Notes | 原文弓在下 |

### Definitions

彀
* (literary) to draw a bow to the full
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) target
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) shooting range
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) good shooter
* (historical dictionaries only) good
* (dated) Alternative form of 夠 / 够 (gòu)

#### Compounds

* 不彀
* 不彀味
* 不能彀
* 入彀
* 張羅彀弓 / 张罗彀弓
* 彀中 (gòuzhōng)
* 彀率 (gòulǜ)
* 彀者
* 機彀 / 机彀
* 能彀 (nénggòu)
* 英雄入彀
* 落彀

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* enough
* adequate fully
* quite

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)、く (ku)

## Korean
### Hanja

彀 (eum 구 (gu))
* draw a bow to the full
* shoot a bow

## Vietnamese
### Han character

彀: Hán Nôm readings: cấu
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation