咎

咎 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人口 (HOR) or 竹卜口 (HYR), four-corner 2860₄, composition ⿱处口(G) or ⿱⿺夂人口(TJK))

• 倃 𠴰 㹾 綹(绺) 䛮 鯦 㰶 䓘 晷 鼛 麔

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 185, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3493
• Dae Jaweon: page 404, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 607, character 6
• Unihan data for U+548E

Historical forms of the character 咎
Shang		Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Originally ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 夊 (“foot”) + 人 (“person”). Later 口 was added, making the modern form an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 各 + 人.

咎

1. fault; defect; error; mistake
2. calamity; misfortune
3. to blame; to punish; to find fault

咎

1. ^† Alternative form of 鼛 (gāo, “large drum”)
2. a surname
3. Alternative form of 皋 (gāo, “a surname”):

1. used in 咎繇

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. fault
2. blame

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)、こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}、こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: とが (toga, 咎)、とがめる (togameru, 咎める)

咎 • (gu, go) (hangeul 구, 고, revised gu, go, McCune–Reischauer ku, ko)

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咎: Hán Việt readings: cữu^[1]

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