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局

局

See also: 侷 and 跼

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

局 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸尸口 (SSR), four-corner 77227, composition ⿸尸⿹𠃌口)

References

  • KangXi: page 300, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7653
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 967, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5C40

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 局

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 局
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (局) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鋦 *koɡ
挶 *koɡ
梮 *koɡ
局 *ɡoɡ
跼 *ɡoɡ
侷 *ɡoɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 局
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕy⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕy⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕy⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕy⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕy³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiu²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕyʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕyəʔ⁵⁴/
Pingyao /t͡ɕyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕy³¹/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑioʔ¹/
/d͡ʑyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /d͡ʑioʔ³/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷəʔ²/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiu²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕy²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiuʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /kʰiuk̚⁵/
Taoyuan /kʰiuk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kok̚²/
Nanning /****̚²²/
Hong Kong /****̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiɔk̚⁵/
/kik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kuoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ky⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kek̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xɔk̚³/
Rime
Character 局
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 燭 (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠玉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiok̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /guawk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiok̚/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭwok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 局 局
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jú jú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjowk › ‹ gjowk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*N-kʰ(r)ok/ /*[ɡ](r)ok/
English bent, curved department

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 局
Reading # 1/1
No. 7028
Phonetic
component		 局
Rime
group		 屋
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 局
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡoɡ/

Definitions

局

  1. †bent; crooked
  2. † to bend
  3. to restrict; to limit
  4. † to force; to coerce
  5. narrow; restricted
  6. †near; close
  7. †breadth of mind; tolerance
  8. †neighbour
  9. part; component
  10. arrangement; distribution; structure; organisation
  11. situation; circumstances
  12. event
  13. office; bureau
  14. shop; store
  15. trap; trick
  16. feast; banquet; gathering
  17. chessboard
  18. Classifier for boardgames and ballgames: game  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

局

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Noun

局 ‎(hiragana つぼね, romaji tsubone)

  1. a court lady
  2. a room in a palace, especially for a lady

Etymology 2

Noun

局 ‎(hiragana きょく, romaji kyoku)

  1. bureau, department
  2. channel such as on TV

Suffix

局 ‎(hiragana きょく, romaji -kyoku)

  1. bureau

Korean

Hanja

局 • ‎(guk) (hangeul 국)

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Vietnamese

Han character

局 (cục, cộc, cuộc, gục, ngúc)

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