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醜

醜

See also: 丑

Translingual

Han character

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

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. 醜
simp. 丑

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 醜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌九切
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 醜 醜
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 醜
Reading # 1/1
No. 15565
Phonetic
component		 酉
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 醜
Old
Chinese		 /*l̥ʰjuʔ/

Adjective

醜

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

Japanese

Kanji

醜

(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

醜 ‎(hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

  1. ugliness

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

醜 (xú, xấu, xổ, xũ, sú)

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