洼

See also: 窪

洼 U+6D3C, 洼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D3C ← 活 [U+6D3B] CJK Unified Ideographs 洽 → [U+6D3D]

Translingual

Han character

洼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水土土 (EGG), four-corner 3411₄, composition ⿰氵圭)

1. hollow
2. pit
3. depression
4. swamp

Derived characters

• 窪, 䨟

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 622, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1019, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1601, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6D3C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
街	*kreː, *kreː
鞋	*ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾	*ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
佳	*kreː
鮭	*ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯	*ŋreː, *ŋre
崖	*ŋreː, *ŋre
啀	*ŋreː
厓	*ŋreː
捱	*ŋreː
睚	*ŋreːs
娃	*qreː
洼	*qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇	*qreː, *qʷraː
胿	*ɡeː, *kʷeː
溎	*qeːns
觟	*ɡʷraːʔ
黊	*ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳	*ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
蛙	*qʷraː, *qʷreː
窪	*qʷraː
卦	*kʷreːs
挂	*kʷreːs
掛	*kʷreːs
詿	*kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
罣	*kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓	*kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
鼃	*ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
圭	*kʷeː
珪	*kʷeː
邽	*kʷeː
閨	*kʷeː
袿	*kʷeː
窐	*kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
茥	*kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
桂	*kʷeːs
筀	*kʷeːs
奎	*kʰʷeː
刲	*kʰʷeː
蝰	*kʰʷeː
楏	*kʰʷeː
睳	*qʰʷeː
畦	*ɡʷeː
眭	*ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
烓	*qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬	*kʰʷeʔ
恚	*qʷes
硅	*qʰʷreɡ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 洼 – see 窪 (“hollow; low-lying; sunken; depression; low-lying area; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 窪).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		洼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guī (gui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guī
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guei
    • Wade–Giles: kuei¹
    • Yale: gwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guei
    • Palladius: гуй (guj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

洼

1. a surname

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02075

Japanese

Kanji

洼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. hollow
2. pit
3. depression
4. swamp

Readings

• Go-on: え (e)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}
• Kan-on: あい (ai); わ (wa)
• Kun: くぼむ (kubomu, 洼む); くぼみ (kubomi, 洼み); くぼまる (kubomaru, 洼まる)

Korean

Hanja

洼 • (wa) (hangeul 와, revised wa, McCune–Reischauer wa, Yale wa)

1. pool
2. deep pond