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Definition 2024


Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 85 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中中 (EILL), four-corner 32100, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 622, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17413
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1616, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6D32

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tju
*tju
*tju, *tjuɡ
*dju
*dju, *djus

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*tu/
English islet

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 # 1/1
No. 17492
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tju/

Definitions

  1. continent
  2. island
  3. islet

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. continent

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(ju) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

  1. continent

Vietnamese

Han character

(châu, chao)

  1. continent

Readings

  • Nôm: chao, châu

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville