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Translingual

Han character

(radical 164 +10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹山戈 (MWHUI), four-corner 16613, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1286, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39969
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1786, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3590, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+919C

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*kʰjuʔ, *lu
*ʔslu
*sklu, *sɡlu
*sklu, *sɡlu
*sklu
*ʔsluʔ
*sklus
*skʰlu
*skʰlu
*skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
*sɡlu
*sɡlu
*sɡlu
*sɡlu
*l̥ʰjuʔ
*klus, *lu, *lus
*lu
*lu, *luʔ, *lus
*lu
*lu, *sruɡ
*lu
*lu, *luʔ
*luʔ, *lus
*luʔ
*luʔ
*luʔ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (24)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰuwX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiuX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chǒu chǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhuwX › ‹ tsyhuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*t.qʰuʔ/ /*t.qʰuʔ/
English ugly; evil category

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. 15565
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l̥ʰjuʔ/

Adjective

  1. ugly; homely; hideous
  2. shameful; disgraceful

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ugly
  2. shameful, disgraceful

Readings

Compounds

  • 醜草 (shikogusa)
  • 醜女 (shikome)
  • 醜男 (buotoko, shikoo)
  • 醜名 (shikona)
  • 醜の木 (shiko no ki)
  • 醜悪
  • 醜態
  • 醜聞
  • 美醜
  • 老醜

Noun

(hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

  1. ugliness

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(, xấu, xổ, xũ, )

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