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舅

舅

Translingual

Han character

舅 (radical 134 臼+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X田大尸 (HXWKS), four-corner 77427, composition ⿱臼男)

  1. mother's brother, uncle

References

  • KangXi: page 1004, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30208
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3040, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8205

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 舅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
臼 *ɡuʔ
齨 *ɡuʔ
桕 *ɡuʔ
舅 *ɡuʔ
舊 *ɡʷɯs
匶 *ɡʷɯs
閰 *kuɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡuʔ) : phonetic 臼 ‎(OC *ɡuʔ) + semantic 男 ‎(“man”) – uncle, a kind of man.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 舅
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiou⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕiou⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕiou⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕiou²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiou³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiou⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕiɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕiəu¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕiou¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕiɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕiəu³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕiəu¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕiəu²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕiəu²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiəɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡ɕiɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕiəu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕiəu³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕiəu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑiɤ²³/
Suzhou /d͡ʑiɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑiø¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑau³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕiu³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕiəu⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕiəu¹¹/
Xiangtan /d͡ʑiəɯ²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰiu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /kʰiu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kʰiu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰɐu²³/
Nanning /kʰɐu²⁴/
Hong Kong /kʰɐu¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiu²²/
/ku²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kiɛu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kiu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ku³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ku³³/
/ku³¹/
Rime
Character 舅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 其九切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /guwX/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiuX/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 舅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ](r)uʔ/
English mother"s brother

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 舅
Reading # 1/1
No. 6980
Phonetic
component		 臼
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 舅
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡuʔ/

Noun

舅

  1. mother's brother: uncle

Derived terms

Japanese

Etymology 1

/sihi1to2/: [shipitwo] → [shiɸitwo] → [shiɸito]. See next entry.

Noun

舅 ‎(hiragana しひと, romaji shihito)

  1. a father-in-law

Etymology 2

From shihito: [shipitwo] → [shiɸitwo] → [shiɸito] → [shiɸuto] → [shiwuto] → [shiuto] → [shuːto].

Noun

舅 ‎(hiragana しゅうと, romaji shūto, historical hiragana しうと)

  1. a father-in-law

Kanji

舅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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