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侏

侏

侏 U+4F8F, 侏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F8F
← 侎
[U+4F8E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 侐 →
[U+4F90]

Translingual

Han character

侏 (radical 9 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人竹十木 (OHJD), four-corner 25290, composition ⿰亻朱)

  1. dwarf
  2. small, little, tiny

References

  • KangXi: page 102, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 592
  • Dae Jaweon: page 216, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 148, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+4F8F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 侏

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 侏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕio/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 侏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*to/
English 侏儒 zhūrú "dwarf"

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 侏
Reading # 1/1
No. 17570
Phonetic
component		 朱
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 朱
Old
Chinese		 /*tjo/

Definitions

侏

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Japanese

Kanji

侏

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

侏 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

侏 (thù)

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References

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