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喾

嚳
kù
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (archaic) used in the name Emperor Ku, a legendary ancient ruler

Examples

帝喾高辛氏是黄帝的曾孙。
Dì Kù Gāoxīnshì shì Huángdì de zēngsūn.
Emperor Ku of Gaoxin was a great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor.

Tips

history
Not used independently in modern Chinese. It survives only in the name 帝喾 (Emperor Ku), one of the legendary Five Emperors named in the Records of the Grand Historian; the indexing radical is 口.
register
Onomastic and archaic only — found in legend and ancient histories, not in everyday language.

Components

ideograph
⺌ xiǎo
small-shape graphic top
The three short strokes on top, like a ⺌ cap, are a graphic element from the original upper part, not an independent meaning here.
ideograph
冖 mì
cover
The cover 冖 in the middle is the stylized survival of an inner element; it functions only as a graphic connector between top and bottom.
phonetic
告 gào
to tell; here phonetic
The 告 at the bottom carries the sound, drifting from gào to kù, and its 口 gives the character its indexing radical.

Filed under radical 口 (kǒu, #30) by convention. 口 is not a separate component in 喾, so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order

喾 kù