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U+4FF6, 俶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FF6

[U+4FF5]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4FF7]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人卜火水 (OYFE), four-corner 27240, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 106, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 732
  • Dae Jaweon: page 226, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 175, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+4FF6

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsliw
*ʔsliw
*l'ɯːwɢ, *ʔslɯwɢ
*l'ɯːwɢ
*nɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*sʰlɯːwɢ
*zlɯːwɢ
*ʔsluːb
*sʰlɯːɡ
*srɯːɡ, *ʔslɯwɢ, *srɯwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ
*ʔl'uːwɢ, *sluːwɢ
*ʔslɯːwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ, *ʔsrɯwɢ
*ʔslɯwɢ
*l̥ʰɯwɢ
*ʔljɯwɢ, *l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*l̥ʰjɯwɢ
*ɦljɯwɢ
*ɦljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ
*hljɯwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰuwk̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiuk̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chù
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰuk/
English commence

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. 11753
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰjɯwɢ/

Definitions

  1. start, begin
  2. beginning
  3. arrange

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(suk, cheok) (hangeul 숙, , revised suk, cheok, McCune-Reischauer suk, ch'ŏk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(thích, thục)

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References