Translingual

Han character

束 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木口)

1. bind, control, restrain
2. bale, bundle

Derived characters

• 速

References

• KangXi: page 512, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 3
• Unihan data for U+675F

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

束

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Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: そく (soku)
• Kan’on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: たば (taba), たばねる (束ねる, tabaneru), つか (tsuka), つかねる (束ねる, tsukaneru)

Compounds

• 結束 (けっそく) ‎(kessoku): union, unity
• 拘束 (こうそく) ‎(kōsoku): restriction, restraint
• 装束 (しょうぞく) ‎(shōzoku): costume, attire
• 束帯 (そくたい) ‎(sokutai): old ceremonial court dress
• 束 (そく)に立 (た)つ ‎(soku ni tatsu)
• 束縛 (そくばく) ‎(sokubaku): restraint, shackles
• 束髪 (そくはつ) ‎(sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
• 電束 (でんそく) ‎(densoku): electric flux
• 波束 (はそく) ‎(hasoku): wave packet
• 約束 (やくそく) ‎(yakusoku): arrangement, convention

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

Alternative forms

• 把

Counter

束 ‎(hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

1. counter for bundles

   それは一束十円 (ひとたばじゅうえん)の値段 (ねだん)でした

   sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita

   They cost 10 yen a bundle

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana たば, romaji taba)

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼 (かれ)は古 (ふる)い手紙 (てがみ)を束 (たば)にした

   kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita

   He bound old letters into a bundle

Derived terms

• 札束 (さつたば) ‎(satsutaba): wad of bills
• 束 (たば)になって掛 (か)かる ‎(taba ni natte kakaru): attack all in a bunch
• 束 (たば)ねる ‎(tabaneru): tie up in a bundle
• 花束 (はなたば) ‎(hanataba): bunch of flowers

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) つか​ [tsùkáꜜ] (Odaka - [2])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɯ̥ᵝka̠]

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana つか, romaji tsuka)

1. handbreadth, bundle

Derived terms

• 束 (つか)の間 (ま) ‎(tsukanoma): brief space of time

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) そ​く [sóꜜkù] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞kɯᵝ]

Counter

束 ‎(hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

1. large bundles

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana そく, romaji soku)

1. (mathematics) lattice

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

束 • ‎(sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

束 (thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc)

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