# 呱

| 呱 | U+5471, &#21617; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5471 |
| ← 呰 [U+5470] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 呲 → [U+5472] |

## Translingual
### Han character

呱 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口竹女人 (RHVO), four-corner 6203$_0$, composition ⿰口瓜)
* wail, crying of a child
* to swear at

#### Derived characters

* 𥦫

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 182, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3454
* Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 604, character 10
* Unihan data for U+5471

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 瓜 | *kʷraː |
| 坬 | *kʷraːs |
| 窊 | *qʷraː, *qʷraːs |
| 畖 | *qʷraː |
| 搲 | *qʷraːs |
| 攨 | *qʷraːs |
| 孤 | *kʷaː |
| 苽 | *kʷaː |
| 胍 | *kʷaː |
| 泒 | *kʷaː |
| 呱 | *kʷaː |
| 觚 | *kʷaː |
| 柧 | *kʷaː |
| 罛 | *kʷaː |
| 軱 | *kʷaː |
| 菰 | *kʷaː |
| 箛 | *kʷaː |
| 狐 | *ɡʷaː |
| 弧 | *ɡʷlaː |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guā, gū (gua$^1$, gu$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄚ, ㄍㄨ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gu$^1$ / waa$^1$ / gwaa$^1$ / gwaa$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kōa
* Mandarin
** (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/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gū
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gu
*** Wade–Giles: ku$^1$
*** Yale: gū
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gu
*** Palladius: гу (gu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gu$^1$ / waa$^1$ / gwaa$^1$ / gwaa$^2$
*** Yale: gū / wā / gwā / gwá
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gu$^1$ / waa$^1$ / gwaa$^1$ / gwaa$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gu$^1$ / wa$^1$ / gua$^1$ / gua$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuː⁵⁵/, /waː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː⁵⁵/, /kʷaː³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kōa
*** Tâi-lô: kuā
*** Phofsit Daibuun: koa
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kua²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kua⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kua³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua³³/
* Middle Chinese: ku
Rime :
| Character | 呱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 古胡切 |
| Baxter | ku |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kuo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kuo/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ko/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɔ/ |
| Li Rong | /ko/ |
| Wang Li | /ku/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kuo/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | gū |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gu$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷˤa/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaː/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 呱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | gū |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ku › |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷˁa/ |
| English | wail |
| 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 | 呱 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4351 |
| Phonetic component | 瓜 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 孤 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷaː/ |

### Definitions

呱
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#### Compounds

* 呱呱
* 呱呱叫 (guāguājiào)
* 呱呱墮地 / 呱呱堕地 (gūgūduòdì)
* 呱呱墜地 / 呱呱坠地 (gūgūzhuìdì)
* 呱嗒板兒 / 呱嗒板儿 (guādabǎnr)
* 呱噪
* 咭咭呱呱
* 咿哩呱喇
* 唧唧呱呱
* 嘰哩呱啦 / 叽哩呱啦 (jīliguālā)
* 拉呱兒 / 拉呱儿
* 頂呱呱 / 顶呱呱 (dǐngguāguā)

### References

* “呱”, 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–
* “Query for 呱”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* cry

#### Readings

* Go-on: く (ku)
* Kan-on: こ (ko)

#### Derived terms

* 呱呱(ここ) (koko)

## Korean
### Hanja

呱 • (go) (hangeul 고, revised go, McCune–Reischauer ko)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

呱: Hán Nôm readings: oa
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