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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 115 +8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月土口 (HDBGR), four-corner 27920)

  1. dense, crowded, packed
  2. soupy, viscous

References

  • KangXi: page 855, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25130
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2614, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+7A20

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tuːw, *dɯw, *do
*tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
*tuːwʔ
*tʰuːw, *dɯw
*tʰuːw, *duːw
*duːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
*tɯːw
調 *dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
*dɯːw
*tʰɯw
*tʰɯw, *tjɯw
*dɯw
*dɯw, *tjɯws
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯw
*tjɯwʔ
*tʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (11)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɖɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖuw/
Li
Rong
/ȡiu/
Wang
Li
/ȡĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȡʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chóu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chóu
Middle
Chinese
‹ drjuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]riw/
English dense, thick

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. 17528
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*dɯw/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 稠人廣眾稠人广众
  • 稠密 (chóumì)
  • 稠濁稠浊
  • 稠疊稠叠
  • 稠糊
  • 稠雲稠云
  • 粘稠
  • 造畜稠棧造畜稠栈
  • 黏稠

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jo, ju) (hangeul , , revised jo, ju, McCune-Reischauer cho, chu, Yale co, cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(trù)

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