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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木尸口口 (DSRR), four-corner 41916, composition)

  1. door hinge
  2. pivot
  3. center of power

References

  • KangXi: page 550, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15450
  • Dae Jaweon: page 938, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1276, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6A1E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰoː, *kʰo
*kʰoː
*kʰoː, *qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːʔ
*qoː, *kʰo
*qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːs
*qoː
*qoː, *qoːʔ
*qoː
*qoː
*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
*qoː, *qas
*qoː
*qoːʔ
*qoːʔ
*kʰl'o
*kʰjo
*kʰo, *kʰos
*kʰo
*kʰo
*kʰo
*kʰo
*qoʔ
*qos
*qos

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰio/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰuə̆/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰio/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shū shū
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔuw › ‹ tsyhu ›
Old
Chinese
/*qˤ(r)o/ /*t.qʰ(r)o/
English a kind of elm pivot

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. 10604
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰjo/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chu, u) (hangeul , , revised chu, u, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, u, Yale chwu, wu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(xu, su, , , , xũ, khu, xó, xụ)

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