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Translingual

Han character

(radical 120 +2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女火女中 (VFVL), four-corner 22900, composition)

  1. investigate, inspect

References

  • KangXi: page 915, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27227
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1342, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3362, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7CFE

Chinese

trad.
simp.
alt. forms
𠃏

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
*kriːw
*ɡiw
*kiːws
*kiːws
*kiːws
*qʰljɯw, *qʰljɯws
*kɯw, *krɯwʔ
*kɯw, *krɯw, *krɯwʔ
*kɯw, *krɯw
*krɯw, *krɯwʔ
*ɡrɯw
*ɡrɯw
*ɡrɯw

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiou⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiou⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕiou²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕiou²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiou²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiou²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiou²¹/
Xining /t͡ɕiɯ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiəu⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiou⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤu⁴⁴/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiəu⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕiəu⁵⁵/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiəu⁵⁵/
Kunming /t͡ɕiəu⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiəɯ³¹/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɯ²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəu¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiəu⁵³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕiɤ⁵³/
Suzhou /t͡ɕiɤ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕiø³³/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕau³³/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiu³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiəu³³/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕiəɯ³³/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕiu⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /keu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kiu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /tɐu³⁵/
Nanning /tɐu³⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐu³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiu²¹/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kieu³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiu²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kiu⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kiu²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (138)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiɪuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kieuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjiwX/
Li
Rong
/kiĕuX/
Wang
Li
/kiəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kieuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiū
Middle
Chinese
‹ kjiwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*k<r>iwʔ/
English plait, unite

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 6923 6929
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯw/ /*krɯwʔ/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 公子糾公子纠
  • 勞資糾紛劳资纠纷
  • 桃色糾紛桃色纠纷
  • 猛糾猛纠
  • 矜糾收繚矜纠收缭
  • 糾合纠合 (jiūhé)
  • 糾察纠察
  • 糾察隊纠察队
  • 糾彈纠弹
  • 糾纏不清纠缠不清
  • 糾舉纠举
  • 糾舉權纠举权
  • 糾葛纠葛
  • 糾集纠集
  • 繚糾缭纠
  • 繩愆糾謬绳愆纠谬
  • 雄糾糾雄纠纠
  • 黝糾黝纠

References


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. twist, ask, investigate, verify

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(gyu, gyo) (hangeul , , revised gyu, gyo, McCune-Reischauer kyu, kyo, Yale kyu, kyo)

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