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酋

酋

Translingual

Han character

酋 (radical 164 酉+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿金田一 (TCWM), four-corner 80601, composition ⿱丷酉)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1280, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39765
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1779, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3572, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+914B

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 酋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (酉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楢 *kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎 *ʔslu
遒 *sklu, *sɡlu
蝤 *sklu, *sɡlu
揂 *sklu
酒 *ʔsluʔ
媨 *sklus
鞧 *skʰlu
緧 *skʰlu
趥 *skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋 *sɡlu
崷 *sɡlu
鰌 *sɡlu
煪 *sɡlu
醜 *l̥ʰjuʔ
猶 *klus, *lu, *lus
猷 *lu
輶 *lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤 *lu
莤 *lu, *sruɡ
蕕 *lu
庮 *lu, *luʔ
槱 *luʔ, *lus
梄 *luʔ
丣 *luʔ
酉 *luʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 丷 ‎(“water”) + 酉 ‎(“vase”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 酋
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 自秋切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡ziu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡ziəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zuw/
Li
Rong		 /d͡ziu/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qiú
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 酋
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qiú
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-tsu/
English wine-master

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 酋
Reading # 1/1
No. 15559
Phonetic
component		 酉
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 酋
Old
Chinese		 /*sɡlu/
Notes 酉轉註字

Definitions

酋

  1. chief of a tribe, chieftain

Japanese

Kanji

酋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

酋 • ‎(chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune-Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

酋 (tù)

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