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Translingual

Han character

(radical 159 +5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十十中田 (JJLW), four-corner 55060, composition)

  1. axle, axletree
  2. pivot
  3. axis

References

  • KangXi: page 1242, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1718, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3520, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8EF8

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ljɯwɢs
*ljɯwɢs
*ljɯwɢs, *lɯwɢs
*l̥ʰɯw
*l̥ʰɯw, *l'ɯwɢ
*l'ɯw
*l'ɯw
*l'ɯw, *ɦljɯw, *lɯw
*rlɯw
*l'ɯwɢs
*l'ɯwɢs
*l'ɯwɢs
*l'ɯwɢs
*l'ɯwɢs
*lɯw, *lɯwɢs
*lɯw
*lɯw
*lɯw
*lɯw
*lɯwɢs
*lɯwɢs, *l'ɯwɢ
*lɯwɢs
*l'ɯːwɢ, *l̥ʰɯwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*l'ɯwɢ
*l'ɯwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (11)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/ȡiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*lruk/
English wheel-axle

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. 15541
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'ɯwɢ/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(chuk) (hangeul , revised chuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trục)

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