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  *古* | 古* | *古
ancient / old / paleo-
HSK 3
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  *鼓* | 鼓* | *鼓
drum / CL: , / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell
HSK 5
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  *皷* | 皷* | *皷
old variant of
HSK 5
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  *股* | 股* | *股
thigh / part of a whole; portion of a sum / (finance) stock; share / strand of a thread / low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below / classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc / classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff / classifier for bands of people, gangs etc / classifier for sudden forceful actions
HSK 6
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  *顧* | 顧* | *顧
to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to
HSK 6
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  *故* | 故* | *故
happening / instance / reason / cause / intentional / former / old / friend / therefore / hence / (of people) to die, dead
HSK 7-9
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  *雇* | 雇* | *雇
to employ / to hire / to rent
HSK 7-9
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  *僱* | 僱* | *僱
variant of
HSK 7-9
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  *咕* | 咕* | *咕
(onom.) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
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  *估* | 估* | *估
to estimate
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  *估* | 估* | *估
used in 估衣
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  *菇* | 菇* | *菇
(bound form) mushroom
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  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
surname Gu
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  *谷* | 谷* | *谷
valley
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  *穀* | 穀* | *穀
grain / corn
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  *詁* | 詁* | *詁
to comment / to explain
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  *顧* | 顧* | *顧
surname Gu
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  *固* | 固* | *固
hard / strong / solid / sure / assuredly / undoubtedly / of course / indeed / admittedly
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  *賈* | 賈* | *賈
merchant / to buy
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  *餶* | 餶* | *餶
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  *瀔* | 瀔* | *瀔
river name in Henan province
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  *汩* | 汩* | *汩
confused / extinguished / (onom.) used in 汩汩
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  *孤* | 孤* | *孤
lone / lonely
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  *鈷* | 鈷* | *鈷
(chemistry) cobalt (Taiwan pr. [gu1]) / used in 鈷鉧|钴𬭁
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  *鵠* | 鵠* | *鵠
center or bull's eye of an archery target (old) / goal / target
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  *凅* | 凅* | *凅
dried up / dry / exhausted / tired
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  *辜* | 辜* | *辜
surname Gu
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  *辜* | 辜* | *辜
crime / sin
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  *箍* | 箍* | *箍
hoop / to bind with hoops
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  *沽* | 沽* | *沽
abbr. for Tianjin 天津 (also 津沽)
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  *沽* | 沽* | *沽
to buy / to sell
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  *古* | 古* | *古
surname Gu
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  *蠱* | 蠱* | *蠱
arch. legendary venomous insect / to poison / to bewitch / to drive to insanity / to harm by witchcraft / intestinal parasite
Gu county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
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  *姑* | 姑* | *姑
paternal aunt / husband's sister / husband's mother (old) / nun / for the time being (literary)
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  *呱* | 呱* | *呱
crying sound of child
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  *骨* | 骨* | *骨
bone
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  *榖* | 榖* | *榖
paper mulberry tree
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  *唂* | 唂* | *唂
(onom.) bird call
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
Yupian, Chinese dictionary compiled by Gu Yewang 顧野王|顾野王 in 6th century AD
Rizhilu or Record of daily study, by early Confucian philosopher Gu Yanwu 顧炎武|顾炎武
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *轂* | 轂* | *轂
wheel
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  *轂* | 轂* | *轂
hub of wheel
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  *鯝* | 鯝* | *鯝
Xenocypris, genus of cyprinid fish found in eastern Asia
Gu Kaizhi or Ku K'aichih (346-407), famous painter of Eastern Jin dynasty, one of the Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties 六朝四大家
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蛌* | 蛌* | *蛌
cricket
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  *觚* | 觚* | *觚
goblet / rule / law
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  *牯* | 牯* | *牯
bullock / cow
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  *蛄* | 蛄* | *蛄
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *濲* | 濲* | *濲
name of a river in Hunan
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  *錮* | 錮* | *錮
obstinate disease / to restrain / to stop
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  *瞽* | 瞽* | *瞽
blind / undiscerning
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  *軲* | 軲* | *軲
wheel / to roll
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  *韺* | 韺* | *韺
music of legendary emperor Gu
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  *泒* | 泒* | *泒
name of a river
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  *罛* | 罛* | *罛
large fishing net
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  *鶻* | 鶻* | *鶻
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  *軱* | 軱* | *軱
big bone
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  *罟* | 罟* | *罟
to implicate / net for birds or fish
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  *鴣* | 鴣* | *鴣
partridge / Francolinus chinensis
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  *羖* | 羖* | *羖
black ewe
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  *箛* | 箛* | *箛
(bamboo) / trumpet for chariots
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  *盬* | 盬* | *盬
covered pot
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  *榾* | 榾* | *榾
scraps of wood
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  *嘏* | 嘏* | *嘏
good fortune / longevity
Bo Gu (1907-1946), Soviet-trained Chinese Communist, journalist and propagandist, 1930s Left adventurist, subsequently rehabilitated, killed in air crash
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *痼* | 痼* | *痼
obstinate disease / (of passion, hobbies) long-term
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  *臌* | 臌* | *臌
dropsical / swollen
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  *酤* | 酤* | *酤
to deal in liquors
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  *蓇* | 蓇* | *蓇
used in 蓇葖 / Taiwan pr. [gu3]
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  *崮* | 崮* | *崮
steep-sided flat-topped mountain / mesa / (element in mountain names)
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  *崓* | 崓* | *崓
variant of
Gu'an county in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei
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  *扢* | 扢* | *扢
clean / to rub
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  *唃* | 唃* | *唃
old variant of
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  *梏* | 梏* | *梏
braces (med.) / fetters / manacles
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  *牿* | 牿* | *牿
shed or pen for cattle
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  *菰* | 菰* | *菰
Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋, which is swollen by a smut fungus / (variant of ) mushroom
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  *堌* | 堌* | *堌
place name
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  *祻* | 祻* | *祻
variant of 禍|祸, disaster
Gu'an county in Langfang 廊坊, Hebei
Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
Four Great Painters of the Six Dynasties, namely: Cao Buxing 曹不興|曹不兴, Gu Kaizhi 顧愷之|顾恺之, Lu Tanwei 陸探微|陆探微 and Zhang Sengyou 張僧繇|张僧繇
History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, composed by Ban Gu 班固 in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
Gu Long (1938-1985), Taiwanese wuxia novelist and screenwriter
Ku Hung-ming or Gu Hongming (1857-1928), Malaysian man of letters, highly regarded for his literary works written mostly in English, and known for his monarchist views
Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录
Gu Yewang (519-581), historian and an interpreter of classical texts, editor of Yupian 玉篇
variant of / (used in place names)


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