# 覯

| 覯 | U+89AF, &#35247; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89AF |
| ← 覮 [U+89AE] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 覰 → [U+89B0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

覯 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿月月山山 (TBBUU), four-corner 5651$_0$, composition ⿰冓見)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1136, character 32
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34937
* Dae Jaweon: page 1604, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3672, character 5
* Unihan data for U+89AF

## 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 |

### Etymology

Cognate with 遘 (OC *koːs, *koːs, “to meet”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gòu (gou$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kau$^3$ / 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: kau$^3$ / gau$^3$
*** Yale: kau / gau
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kau$^3$ / gau$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: keo$^3$ / geo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɐu̯³³/, /kɐu̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: kuwH
Rime :
| Character | 覯 |
| 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 | 覯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gòu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kuw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*kˁ(r)o-s/ |
| English | come across, meet with |
| 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 | 覯 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4194 |
| Phonetic component | 冓 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遘 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːs/ |

### Definitions

覯
* (literary) to see; to meet; to encounter
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 構 / 构 (gòu, “to make; to form”)

#### Compounds

* 罕覯 / 罕觏 (hǎngòu)
* 覯止 / 觏止
* 覯閔 / 觏闵 (gòumǐn)

### References

* “覯”, 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)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): こう (kō)
* Kun: あう (au)

## Korean
### Hanja

覯 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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