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舊
舊
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See also: 旧
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 旧 |
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| Simplified | 旧 |
| Traditional | 舊 |
Alternative forms
Han character
舊 (radical 134 臼+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿人土X (TOGX), four-corner 44777, composition ⿱雈臼 or ⿱萑臼)
Descendants
References
- KangXi: page 1006, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30249
- Dae Jaweon: page 1462, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3043, character 18
- Unihan data for U+820A
Chinese
| trad. | 舊 | |
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| simp. | 旧 | |
| alt. forms | 旧 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (臼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 臼 | *ɡuʔ |
| 齨 | *ɡuʔ |
| 桕 | *ɡuʔ |
| 舅 | *ɡuʔ |
| 舊 | *ɡʷɯs |
| 匶 | *ɡʷɯs |
| 閰 | *kuɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷɯs) : semantic 雈 (“owl”) + phonetic 臼 (OC *ɡuʔ).
Originally referred to a type of owl; later borrowed for a homophonous word meaning "old." The upper portion frequently appears as 萑.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): gau6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khiu
- Min Dong (BUC): gô
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): jjieu (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡˋ
- Wade-Giles: chiu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiow
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: gau6
- Yale: gauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: gau6
- IPA (key): /kɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiu
- Hakka Romanization System: kiu
- Hagfa Pinyim: kiu4
- IPA: /kʰi̯u⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: gô
- IPA (key): /kou²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kū / kiū
- Tâi-lô: kū / kiū
- Phofsit Daibuun: ku, kiu
- IPA (Xiamen): /ku²²/, /kiu²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ku⁴¹/, /kiu⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ku²²/, /kiu²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ku³³/, /kiu³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ku³³/, /kiu³³/
- Note: kū - vernacular; kiū - literary.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: gu7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kū
- IPA (key): /ku¹¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: jjieu (T3)
- IPA (key): /d̥͡ʑiɜ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 舊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 尤 (136) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 巨救切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ɡɨuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ɡiuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ɡiəuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/guwH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ɡiuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ɡĭəuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/gi̯ə̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jiù |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 舊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
jiù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ gjuwH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*N-kʷəʔ-s/ |
| English | old |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 舊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6981 |
| Phonetic component |
臼 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
舊 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡʷɯs/ |
Definitions
舊
Synonyms
- 老 (lǎo, “old; aged”)
Antonyms
- 新 (xīn, “new”)
Compounds
Derived terms from 舊
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #12587”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
舊
(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 旧)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
舊 • (gu) (hangeul 구)
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Vietnamese
Han character
舊 (cựu, lâu)
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