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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹十木 (DHJD), four-corner 45990, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 523, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 911, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1199, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+682A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
*to
*to
*to
*to
*to
*to, *tʰjo
*to, *tjo
*to
*to, *djo
*do
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo
*tjo, *tjos
*tjo
*tjo
*tʰjo
*djo
*djo
*djo
*djo

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈio/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuə̆/
Li
Rong
/ȶio/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhū
Middle
Chinese
‹ trju ›
Old
Chinese
/*tro/
English tree root, stem

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. 17557
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*to/
Notes

Definitions

  1. measure word for trees
  2. root

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
かぶ
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana かぶ, romaji kabu)

  1. stump of a tree
  2. stock (in a company)
  3. share(s) of stock

Suffix

(hiragana かぶ, romaji -kabu)

  1. Abbreviation for 株式会社 (かぶしきがいしゃ) (kabushiki gaisha, stock company); inc.
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
しゅ
Grade: 6
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese (trju).

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana しゅ, romaji shu)

  1. stump of a tree
Derived terms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(ju) (hangeul , revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chò, châu, chu)

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