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區

區

區 U+5340, 區
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5340
← 匿
[U+533F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 十 →
[U+5341]
See also: 区

Translingual

Shinjitai 区
Simplified 区
Traditional 區

Han character

區 (radical 23 匸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸口口口 (SRRR), four-corner 71716, composition ⿷匸品)

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 155, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2691
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 87, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5340

Chinese

trad. 區
simp. 区

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 區
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 匸 + 品 ‎(“three men”) – Many people (品) hide in 匸.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 區
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 豈俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /kʰio/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qū
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
No. 10605
Phonetic
component		 區
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 區
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰo/

Definitions

區

  1. area; district; region; ward
  2. A surname​.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəw/
Li
Rong		 /ʔu/
Wang
Li		 /əu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 區
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qˤ(r)o/
English (a measure)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 區
Reading # 1/2
No. 10584
Phonetic
component		 區
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 謳
Old
Chinese		 /*qoː/

Definitions

區

  1. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

區

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 区)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

區 • ‎(gu, u) (hangeul 구, 우, McCune-Reischauer ku, u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

區 (khu, khù, au, âu)

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