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竺
竺
Translingual
Han character
竺 (radical 118 竹+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹一一 (HMM), four-corner 88101)
The Chinese surname Zhu 竺, which originally meant "a kind of bamboo" and was later used for "India" and "Buddhism", was adopted by many early Buddhist monks.
References
- KangXi: page 877, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25842
- Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2947, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7AFA
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
竺 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (竹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 竺 | *tuːɡ, *tuːɡ, *tuɡ |
| 篤 | *tuːɡ |
| 竹 | *tuɡ |
| 筑 | *tuɡ, *duɡ |
| 築 | *tuɡ |
| 茿 | *tuɡ |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
- Wade-Giles: chu2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
- IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: zuk1
- Yale: jūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk7
- IPA (key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
| Rime | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 竺 | 竺 | 竺 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| Initial (聲) | 端 (5) | 知 (9) | 端 (5) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (3) | 屋 (4) | 沃 (6) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III | I |
| Fanqie | 丁木切 | 張六切 | 冬毒切 |
| Reconstructions | |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/tuk̚/ | /ʈɨuk̚/ | /tuok̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/tuk̚/ | /ʈiuk̚/ | /tuok̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/tuk̚/ | /ȶiuk̚/ | /tok̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/təwk̚/ | /ʈuwk̚/ | /tawk̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/tuk̚/ | /ȶiuk̚/ | /tok̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/tuk̚/ | /ȶĭuk̚/ | /tuok̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/tuk̚/ | /ȶi̯uk̚/ | /tuok̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
du | zhu | du |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Character | 竺 | 竺 | 竺 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 |
| No. | 17585 | 17586 | 17589 |
| Phonetic component |
竹 | 竹 | 竹 |
| Rime group |
屋 | 覺 | 覺 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
𣫔 | 篤 | 竹 |
| Old Chinese |
/*tuːɡ/ | /*tuːɡ/ | /*tuɡ/ |
| Notes | 後作篤 | 天竺譯hinduka | |
Definitions
竺
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
竺
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
Readings
Proper noun
竺 (hiragana あつし, romaji Atsushi)
- A male given name
Korean
Hanja
竺 • (chuk, dok) (hangeul 축, 독, revised chuk, dok, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, tok, Yale chwuk, tok)
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Vietnamese
Han character
竺 (trúc)
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