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灸

灸

Translingual

Han character

灸 (radical 86 火+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓人火 (NOF), four-corner 27809, composition ⿱久火)

  1. cauterize with moxa or mugwort
  2. moxibustion

References

  • KangXi: page 666, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18872
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2190, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7078

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 灸

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

Rime
Character 灸 灸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 舉有切 居祐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨuX/ /kɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiuX/ /kiuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiəuX/ /kiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kuwX/ /kuwH/
Li
Rong		 /kiuX/ /kiuH/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəuX/ /kĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ə̯uX/ /ki̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǔ jiù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 灸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷəʔ/
English cauterize by burning tinder

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 灸 灸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6970 6972
Phonetic
component		 久 久
Rime
group		 之 之
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 久 救
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷlɯʔ/ /*kʷlɯs/

Definitions

灸

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Compounds

  • 灸刺
  • 灸法
  • 無病自灸／无病自灸
  • 直接灸
  • 砭灸
  • 蠻針瞎灸／蛮针瞎灸
  • 針灸／针灸 (zhēnjiǔ)
  • 針灸銅人／针灸铜人
  • 針灸麻醉／针灸麻醉
  • 鍼灸
  • 鍼灸銅人／鍼灸铜人
  • 間接灸／间接灸

Japanese

Kanji

灸

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (뜸) moxibustion

Compounds

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

灸 (cứu)

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