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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月木戈 (BDI), four-corner 74200, composition)

  1. elbow
  2. help a person shoulder a load

References

  • KangXi: page 974, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29268
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1425, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2044, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8098

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tkuʔ
*tuʔ, *dus
*duʔ
*duʔ
*l'us

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (9)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuwX/
Li
Rong
/ȶiuX/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ trjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*t-[k]<r>uʔ/
English elbow

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. 17544
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tkuʔ/
Notes

Noun

  1. (anatomy) the elbow

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Kanji in this term
ひじ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana ひじ, romaji hiji, historical hiragana ひぢ)

  1. elbow

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

(ju) (hangeul , revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References