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屈

屈

屈 U+5C48, 屈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C48
← 屇
[U+5C47] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 屉 →
[U+5C49]

Translingual

Han character

屈 (radical 44 尸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸山山 (SUU), four-corner 77272, composition ⿸尸出)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 301, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7669
  • Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 970, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+5C48

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 屈

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 屈
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰy²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰy²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰy¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰy³¹/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰyo³¹/
/t͡ɕʰy³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰiu²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰiu³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰyʔ⁵/
Hefei /t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰyəʔ²/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕʰyɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰy⁵/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰyʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /kʰiut̚¹/
Taoyuan /kʰut̚²²/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐt̚⁵/
Nanning /wɐt̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /wɐt̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kʰut̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kʰouʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kʰy²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kʰuk̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xut̚⁵/
Rime
Character 屈 屈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 物 (60) 物 (60)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 九勿切 區勿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨut̚/ /kʰɨut̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiut̚/ /kʰiut̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiuət̚/ /kʰiuət̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kut̚/ /kʰut̚/
Li
Rong		 /kiuət̚/ /kʰiuət̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭuət̚/ /kʰĭuət̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯uət̚/ /kʰi̯uət̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ju qu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 屈 屈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qū qū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khjut › ‹ khjut ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Nə-[kʰ]ut/ /*[kʰ]ut/
English bent bend, subdue

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 屈 屈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1579 1583
Phonetic
component		 出 出
Rime
group		 物 物
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 𠀔 屈
Old
Chinese		 /*klud/ /*kʰlud/

Definitions

屈

  1. bend, flex
  2. bent, crooked
  3. crouch

Japanese

Kanji

屈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. yield

Readings

Korean

Hanja

屈 • ‎(gul) (hangeul 굴, revised gul, McCune-Reischauer kul)

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Vietnamese

Han character

屈 (khuất, quất)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 屈
Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (出) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
聉 *r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅 *kljods
祟 *sqʰluds
出 *kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁 *ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪 *qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀 *ŋr'uːd
袦 *ŋr'oːd
咄 *ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮 *sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙 *kljod
炪 *kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘 *ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯 *l'uːd
啒 *kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈 *kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟 *kʰluːd
泏 *kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀 *kʰluːd, *ɡlud
朏 *kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
窋 *ʔl'ud
絀 *ʔl'ud
黜 *l̥ʰud
屈 *klud, *kʰlud
趉 *klud
鶌 *klud
詘 *kʰlud
倔 *ɡlud
崛 *ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Simplified from 𡲶.

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