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州

州

See also: 川 and 洲

Translingual

Han character

州 (radical 47 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 32000)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 324, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 46, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5DDE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 州

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 州
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (州) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洲 *tju
州 *tju
喌 *tju, *tjuɡ
酬 *dju
詶 *dju, *djus

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tu/
English islet in stream; province

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 州
Reading # 1/1
No. 17493
Phonetic
component		 州
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 周
Old
Chinese		 /*tju/

Definitions

州

  1. prefecture
  2. state (e.g., of the United States)
  3. (archaic) province
  4. (archaic) administrative division

See also

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

州

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

州 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

  1. state (political entity)

州 ‎(hiragana す, romaji su)

  1. sandbank

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

州 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

  1. state, province

Vietnamese

Han character

州 (châu, chu)

  1. state, province

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