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Translingual

Han character

(radical 39 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜木大弓戈 (YDKNI), four-corner 05417, composition)

  1. who? which? what? which one?

Derived characters

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 280, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6995
  • Dae Jaweon: page 549, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1016, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5B70

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*djɯwɢ
*djɯwɢ
*djɯwɢ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  +  of some sort; current form of right component simplified to .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (25)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʑiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shú
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]uk/
English who

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11798
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djɯwɢ/

Definitions

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(suk) (hangeul , revised suk, McCune-Reischauer suk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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