# 搆

| 搆 | U+6406, &#25606; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6406 |
| ← 搅 [U+6405] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 搇 → [U+6407] |

## Translingual
### Han character

搆 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 手廿廿月 (QTTB), four-corner 5504$_7$, composition ⿰扌冓)

#### Derived characters

* 簼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 445, character 36
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12447
* Dae Jaweon: page 796, character 16
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1928, character 7
* Unihan data for U+6406

## 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 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

### Pronunciation 1

* 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 | 搆 |
| 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
    (Zhengzhang): /*koːs/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 搆 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4199 |
| Phonetic component | 冓 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 遘 |
| Old Chinese | /*koːs/ |
| Notes | 見國語 |

#### Definitions

搆
* to cause; to lead to
* to build; to construct
* to touch

#### Derived terms

* 搆和 / 构和
* 搆怨 / 构怨 (gòuyuàn)
* 搆思 / 构思 (gòusī)
* 搆木為巢 / 构木为巢
* 搆疾 / 构疾
* 搆釁 / 构衅
* 搆陷 / 构陷 (gòuxiàn)
* 搆隙 / 构隙

### Pronunciation 2

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): gōu (gou$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: gōu
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄡ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: gou
*** Wade–Giles: kou$^1$
*** Yale: gōu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gou
*** Palladius: гоу (gou)
*** Sinological IPA : /koʊ̯⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

搆
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to pull

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: く (ku)
* Kan-on: こう (kō)
* Kun: かまえる (kamaeru, 搆える)、かまえ (kamae, 搆え)、かまう (kamau, 搆う)

## Korean
### Hanja

搆 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

搆: Hán Nôm readings: cấu
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