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囚
囚
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Translingual
Han character
囚 (radical 31 囗+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田人 (WO), four-corner 60800, composition ⿴囗人)
References
- KangXi: page 216, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4680
- Dae Jaweon: page 439, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 710, character 13
- Unihan data for U+56DA
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
囚 | |
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Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (囚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 鮂 | *ʔslu, *lju |
| 囚 | *lju |
| 泅 | *lju |
| 苬 | *lju |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 囗 (“box, enclosure”) + 人 (“person”) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
- Wade-Giles: ch'iu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: cau4
- Yale: chàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsau4
- IPA (key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
- Tâi-lô: siû
- Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
- IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiu²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiu²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiu¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ɕiu²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiu²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 囚 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing |
/t͡ɕʰiou³⁵/ /t͡ɕʰiou⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁵/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡ɕʰiou⁴²/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡sʰiou⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /siou⁴²/ | |
| Xi'an | /ɕiou²⁴/ | |
| Xining | /ɕiɯ²⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡ɕʰiəu⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou |
/ɕiou⁵³/ /t͡ɕʰiou⁵³/ |
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| Ürümqi | /t͡ɕʰiɤu⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡ɕʰiəu²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /ɕiəu³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡ɕʰiəu²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡sʰiəɯ²⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡ɕʰiɯ⁵⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /ɕiəu¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /ɕiəu¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /d͡ʑiɤ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /zɤ¹³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /d͡ʑiø²¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /d͡ʑɤu³¹/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡siəu¹³/ |
| Xiangtan | /d͡ziəɯ¹²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | |
| Hakka | Meixian | /siu¹¹/ |
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sʰɐu²¹/ |
| Nanning | /t͡sʰɐu²¹/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sʰɐu²¹/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /siu³⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡sʰieu⁵³/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰiu²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) |
/siu³¹/ /sɔu³¹/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 囚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 邪 (17) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 似尤切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/zɨu/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ziu/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ziəu/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/zuw/ |
| Li Rong |
/ziu/ |
| Wang Li |
/zĭəu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/zi̯ə̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
xiú |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 囚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
qiú |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ zjuw › |
| Old Chinese |
/*sə.lu/ |
| English | prisoner |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 囚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10554 |
| Phonetic component |
囚 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
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| Old Chinese |
/*lju/ |
Definitions
囚
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
囚
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
囚 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)
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Vietnamese
Han character
囚 (tù)
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