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朽

朽

Translingual

Han character

朽 (radical 75 木+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 木一女尸 (DMVS), four-corner 41927, composition ⿰木丂)

References

  • KangXi: page 510, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14439
  • Dae Jaweon: page 894, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1153, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+673D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 朽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丂) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
丂 *kʰluːʔ
攷 *kʰluːʔ
考 *kʰluːʔ
烤 *kʰluːʔ
拷 *kʰluːʔ
栲 *kʰluːʔ
洘 *kʰluːʔ
銬 *kʰluːs
巧 *kʰruːʔ, *kʰruːs
朽 *qʰluʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 朽
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 許久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /hɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /hiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /huwX/
Li
Rong		 /xiuX/
Wang
Li		 /xĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xiǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 朽
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 xiǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰ(r)uʔ/
English rot, decay

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 朽
Reading # 1/1
No. 7412
Phonetic
component		 丂
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 朽
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰluʔ/

Definitions

朽

  1. decayed, rotten
  2. rot, decay

Japanese

Kanji

朽

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

朽 • ‎(hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune-Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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