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愁

愁

Translingual

Han character

愁 (radical 61 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹火心 (HFP), four-corner 29338, composition ⿱秋心)

  1. anxiety
  2. to worry about, be anxious

References

  • KangXi: page 393, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10885
  • Dae Jaweon: page 729, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2322, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6101

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 愁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (秋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鍫 *sʰew
篍 *sʰiw, *sʰiws, *sʰɯw
愀 *sʰiwʔ, *zɯwʔ
湫 *ʔsliwʔ, *ʔsɯw, *sʰɯw, *zɯwʔ
揪 *ʔsɯw
揫 *ʔsɯw
啾 *ʔsɯw
鬏 *ʔsɯw
秋 *sʰɯw
鰍 *sʰɯw
楸 *sʰɯw
秌 *sʰɯw
鞦 *sʰɯw
鶖 *sʰɯw
萩 *sʰɯw
甃 *ʔsrɯws
醔 *sʰrɯw
愁 *zrɯw
僽 *zrɯws

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 愁
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰou³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡sʰou⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Qingdao /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡sʰou²⁴/
Xining /t͡sʰɯ²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡sʰəu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡sʰɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰəu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰəu²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰəu³¹/
Nanjing /t͡sʰəɯ²⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəu¹¹/
Pingyao /səu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zɤ²³/
Suzhou /zɤ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zei²¹³/
Wenzhou /zau³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡səu¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡zəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɛu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /seu¹¹/
Taoyuan /seu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐu²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Hong Kong /sɐu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡sʰɔ³⁵/
/t͡sʰiu³⁵/ 俗
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡sʰɛu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sʰe²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡sʰou⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /sɔu³¹/
Rime
Character 愁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 崇 (20)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 士尤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡ʒɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖ͡ʐiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ʒiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖ͡ʐuw/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ʒiu/
Wang
Li		 /d͡ʒĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɖ͡ʐʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 愁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chóu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzrjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[dz]riw/
English grieved

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 愁
Reading # 1/1
No. 10550
Phonetic
component		 秋
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 愁
Old
Chinese		 /*zrɯw/

Definitions

愁

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Japanese

Kanji

愁

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. distress

Readings

Korean

Hanja

愁 • ‎(su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

愁 (sầu, rầu, ràu, xàu, xầu)

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