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樹

樹

See also: 树

Translingual

Han character

樹 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木土廿戈 (DGTI), four-corner 44900, composition ⿰木尌)

References

  • KangXi: page 551, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15496
  • Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1287, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+6A39

Chinese

trad. 樹
simp. 树
alt. forms 𣗬 Min

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
壴 *tos
廚 *do
躕 *do
櫥 *do
幮 *do
樹 *djoʔ, *djos
澍 *tjos, *djos
尌 *djos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djoʔ, *djos) : semantic 木 ‎(“wood”) + phonetic 尌 ‎(OC *djos).

Etymology

Area word (Schuessler, 2007): Mizo tuh ‎(“to plant, to sow”), Khmer ដុះ ‎(dŏh, “to grow, to bud”). Starostin compares it with Tibetan གདོས ‎(gdos), གདོས་པ ‎(gdos pa, “mast”) and Burmese ထူ ‎(htu, “to erect (a post), to raise (a flag)”).

Related to 豎 (OC *djoʔ, “to erect; to make vertical”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 樹
Mandarin Beijing /ʂu⁵¹/
Harbin /ʂu⁵³/
Tianjin /ʂu⁵³/
/su⁵³/
Jinan /ʂu²¹/
Qingdao /ʃu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʂu³¹²/
Xi'an /fu⁴⁴/
Xining /fv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʂu¹³/
Lanzhou /fu¹³/
Ürümqi /ʂu²¹³/
/fu²¹³/
Wuhan /ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /su¹³/
Guiyang /su²¹³/
Kunming /ʂu²¹²/
Nanjing /ʂu⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʂu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /su⁴⁵/
Pingyao /sz̩ʷ³⁵/
Hohhot /su⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /ɕy²²/
Tunxi /ɕy¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ɕy⁵⁵/
/ɕy¹¹/
Xiangtan /ɕy²¹/
Gan Nanchang /ɕy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /su⁵³/
Taoyuan /ʃu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sy²²/
Nanning /sy²²/
Hong Kong /sy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /su²²/
/t͡sʰiu²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰieu²¹²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /sy⁴⁴/
/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /su³⁵/
/t͡sʰiu³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /si³⁵/
/su³⁵/
/siu²³/
Rime
Character 樹 樹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 臣庾切 常句切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʑɨoX/ /d͡ʑɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ʑioX/ /d͡ʑioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʑioX/ /d͡ʑioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡ʑuə̆X/ /d͡ʑuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ʑioX/ /ʑioH/
Wang
Li		 /ʑĭuX/ /ʑĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʑi̯uX/ /ʑi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 shù shù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 樹 樹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 shù shù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzyuX › ‹ dzyuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-toʔ/ /*m-toʔ-s/
English plant (v.); place upright tree

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 樹 樹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17645 17648
Phonetic
component		 壴 壴
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 豎 樹
Old
Chinese		 /*djoʔ/ /*djos/

Definitions

樹

  1. † to plant; to place upright; to cultivate
  2. † to set up; to establish
  3. tree   (Classifier: 棵 m; 樖 c; 欉 mn; 頭／头 h)
  4. plant
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

樹

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. tree; plant

Readings

Noun

樹 ‎(hiragana き, romaji ki)

  1. Alternative form of 木

Proper noun

樹 ‎(hiragana いつき, romaji Itsuki)

  1. A male given name

樹 ‎(hiragana たつき, romaji Tatsuki)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

樹 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樹 (thụ)

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