See also:
U+9C77, 鱷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9C77

[U+9C76]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9C78]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 195, +16, 27 strokes, cangjie input 弓火一土口 (NFMGR), four-corner 26327, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1480, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46597
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2012, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4720, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9C77

Chinese

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trad. /
simp.
nonstandard simp. 𱈚
alternative forms 𧊜
𩻙

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ŋaːɡ) : semantic (fish) + phonetic (OC *ŋaːɡ).

Etymology

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Within Chinese, Carr (1990) relates it to:

  • (OC *ŋaːɡ, “to beat the drum”), either because drumming was associated with dragons or because some drums were made of crocodilian skins (Schuessler, 2007).
  • Words for “fear”, e.g. (OC *ŋaːɡ, “startled; terrified”), (OC *ŋaːɡ, “frightening; startling”).

Outside of Chinese, Carr (1990) also relates it to:

Vovin (2021) notes that (OC *ŋâk ~ *ŋɑk) "aquatic reptile, saltwater crocodile" was attested late, for the first time in Shuowen as 𧊜; and that "it would be very weird if the word for a ‘saltwater crocodile’ from the middle of Huang-he (黃河) river basin that lies quite far away from both tropics and the sea would be borrowed by Tai languages in Southern China". Therefore, Vovin contends that, instead, (OC *ŋâk ~ *ŋɑk) had been borrowed into Later Han Chinese from Tai.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter ngak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋak̚/
Li
Rong
/ŋɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/ŋɑk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
è
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngok6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9459
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːɡ/
Notes

Definitions

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  1. crocodilian; crocodile; alligator

Synonyms

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Compounds

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Descendants

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  • ? Proto-Tai: *ŋɯəkᴰ (crocodile)

References

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  • [1]
  • 𧊜 in Chinese Text Project's Dictionary

Japanese

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

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Readings

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  • Go-on: がく (gaku)
  • Kan-on: がく (gaku)
  • Kun: わに (wani, )

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: ngạc

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