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Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 43 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 卜火戈大山 (YFIKU), four-corner 03914, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 299, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7599
  • Dae Jaweon: page 594, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 555, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5C31

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsuɡs
*zuɡs
*zuɡs
*zuɡs, *ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ
*ʔsuɡ
*ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (15)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡zɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ziuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ziəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡zuwH/
Li
Rong
/d͡ziuH/
Wang
Li
/d͡zĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/d͡zʱi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiù
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[dz]u[k]-s/
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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. 6994
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*zuɡs/
Notes

Definitions

  1. to approach; to move towards
  2. to undertake; to engage in
    • /    jiù   to get a job; employment
  3. to succeed; to complete
  4. to comply; to follow; to accept
  5. to suffer; to be subjected to
  6. (of food) to go with
  7. with regard to; concerning
  8. even if; even though
  9. at once; right away
    馬上 / 马上   Wǒ mǎshàng jiù lái.   I'll come right away.
  10. (used for emphasis) exactly; precisely; just
    /    Zhè jiù duì le!   That's right!
  11. only; merely; just
  12. then
  13. (used to express earliness) as early as; as soon as
    • 一大早起床   Wǒ yīdàzǎo jiù qǐchuáng.   I'm up with the sun.
  14. as many as; as much as
  15. Used between two identical word to express indifference or resignation.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(chwi) (hangeul , revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(tựu)

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