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柩

柩

See also: 柾

Translingual

Han character

柩 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木尸弓人 (DSNO), four-corner 4191₈, composition ⿰木匛)

References

KangXi: page 520, character 14

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14650

Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 9

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1180, character 7

Unihan data for U+67E9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		柩

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (久) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
畂	*ɡʷ·rɯs
久	*kʷlɯʔ
灸	kʷlɯʔ, kʷlɯs
玖	*kʷlɯʔ
疚	*kʷlɯs
柩	*ɡʷlɯs
羑	*ɡʷ·lɯʔ

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): jiù (jiu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gau⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: jiù
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡˋ
  - Wade-Giles: chiu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiow
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gau⁶
  - Yale: gauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gau⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯²²/

Middle Chinese: /ɡɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	柩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guw^H/
Li Rong	/ɡiu^H/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯ə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiù

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ʷə-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷlɯs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	柩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiù
Middle Chinese	‹ gjuw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ʷə-s/
English	coffin (with corpse)
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	柩
Reading #	1/1
No.	6974
Phonetic component	久
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	舊
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷlɯs/

Definitions

柩

coffin which contains a corpse

Japanese

Kanji

柩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

On: きゅう (kyū)

Kun: ひつぎ (hitsugi)

Noun

柩 ‎(hiragana ひつぎ, romaji hitsugi)

coffin

Korean

Hanja

柩 • ‎(gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: cữu

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