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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木弓土 (DNG), four-corner 47915, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 514, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14512
  • Dae Jaweon: page 901, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1175, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+677B

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nuː
*nuʔ
*nuʔ, *tnuʔ
*nuʔ, *nus
*nuʔ
*nuʔ, *nuɡ
*nuʔ, *n̥ʰuʔ
*nuʔ
*snu
*n̥ʰuʔ
*njuʔ, *nuɡ
*njuʔ
*nuɡ, *njuɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (12) (10)
Final () (136) (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳɨuX/ /ʈʰɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳiuX/ /ʈʰiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/niəuX/ /ȶʰiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳuwX/ /ʈʰuwX/
Li
Rong
/niuX/ /ȶʰiuX/
Wang
Li
/nĭəuX/ /ȶʰĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni̯ə̯uX/ /ȶʰi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
niǔ chǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ trhjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*n̥<r>uʔ/
English shackles, handcuffs

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 1522 1527
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuʔ/ /*n̥ʰuʔ/

Definitions

  1. Ligustrum sinense (Chinese privet) — a kind of shrub or small tree
  2. handcuffs

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(nyu>yu, chu) (hangeul >, , revised nyu>yu, chu, McCune-Reischauer nyu>yu, ch'u, Yale nyu>yu, chwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References