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(Kangxi radical 38, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女手人 (VQO), composition )

  1. greedy
  2. womanly appearance
  3. face showing or filled with hate
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6073
  • Dae Jaweon: page 520, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1029, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+598B
simp. and trad.
Old Chinese
*sqʰows
*qoːwʔ, *qrow, *qrowʔ
*qoːwʔ, *qoːws
*qoːwʔ, *qrowʔ
*qrow
*qrow
*qrow
*qrow
*qrowʔ
*qrowʔ
*pa, *qu
*qos
*qoːwɢ
*qoːwɢ


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The (fu1) reading is only used in the "greedy" and "womanly appearance" definitions. The yōu (you3) reading is only used in the "face showing or filled with hate" definition.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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