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拘
拘
Translingual
Han character
拘 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手心口 (QPR), four-corner 57020, composition ⿰扌句)
References
- KangXi: page 426, character 5
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11963
- Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1856, character 1
- Unihan data for U+62D8
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
拘 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 拘
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 勾 | *koː |
| 鉤 | *koː |
| 鴝 | *koː, *ɡo |
| 句 | *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo |
| 夠 | *koː, *koːs, *kʰoː |
| 枸 | *koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ |
| 軥 | *koː, *koːs, *ɡo |
| 狗 | *koːʔ |
| 苟 | *koːʔ |
| 岣 | *koːʔ, *ko |
| 笱 | *koːʔ |
| 玽 | *koːʔ |
| 耇 | *koːʔ |
| 豿 | *koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ |
| 敂 | *koːʔ |
| 怐 | *koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos |
| 雊 | *koːs |
| 竘 | *kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ |
| 齁 | *qʰoː |
| 呴 | *qʰoːʔ, *qʰos |
| 蚼 | *qʰoːʔ, *ɡo |
| 豞 | *qʰoːs |
| 訽 | *qʰoːs, *ɡoːs |
| 佝 | *qʰoːs |
| 拘 | *ko |
| 駒 | *ko |
| 眗 | *ko |
| 跔 | *ko |
| 鮈 | *ko |
| 痀 | *ko |
| 蒟 | *koʔ, *kos |
| 絇 | *kos, *ɡo |
| 邭 | *kos |
| 劬 | *ɡo |
| 朐 | *ɡo |
| 鼩 | *ɡo |
| 斪 | *ɡo |
| 翑 | *ɡo |
| 葋 | *ɡo |
| 姁 | *ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos |
| 欨 | *qʰo, *qʰoʔ |
| 喣 | *qʰoʔ |
| 煦 | *qʰoʔ, *qʰos |
| 昫 | *qʰos |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
- Wade-Giles: chü1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
- IPA (key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: keoi1
- Yale: kēui
- Cantonese Pinyin: koey1
- IPA (key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
- Tâi-lô: khu
- Phofsit Daibuun: qw
- IPA (Xiamen): /kʰu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰu³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /kʰu⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰu⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 拘 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡ɕy²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡ɕy²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡ɕy²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡ɕy²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡ɕy²¹/ | |
| Xining | /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡ɕy³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡ɕy²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡ɕy³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sz̩ʷ²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡ɕy¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /t͡ɕy¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡ɕy³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡ɕy⁵³/ |
| Suzhou | /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡sz̩ʷ³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡ɕy³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡ɕy³¹/ |
| Tunxi | /t͡ɕy¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡ɕy³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /t͡ɕy³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡ɕy⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /ki⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | ||
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /kʰøy⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /kʰy⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /kʰøy⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/ku⁵⁵/ /kʰu⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /ky⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /ky⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /kʰu³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /ki²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 舉朱切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/kɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/kio/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/kio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/kuə̆/ |
| Li Rong |
/kio/ |
| Wang Li |
/kĭu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ki̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
jū |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拘 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7093 |
| Phonetic component |
句 |
| Rime group |
侯 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
拘 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ko/ |
Definitions
拘
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
拘
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Readings
- Goon: く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading)
- Kan’on: く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading), こう (kō)
- Kun: かかわる (kakawaru), こだわる (kodawaru), とどめる (todomeru), とらえる (toraeru)
Korean
Hanja
拘 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
拘 (câu)
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