咒

See also: 呪

咒	U+5492, 咒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5492

← 咑
[U+5491]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咓 →
[U+5493]

Translingual

Han character

咒 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹弓 (RRHN), four-corner 6621₇, composition ⿱吅几)

Derived characters

𭡒

References

Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3444
Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 277, character 18
Unihan data for U+5492

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咒
alternative forms		呪祝詋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
祝	tjuɡs, tjuɡ
呪	*tjus
咒	*tjus
柷	tjuɡ, tʰjuɡ

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhòu (zhou⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zau³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): chu

(Hailu, HRS): zhiu^ˇ

(Changting, Changting Pinyin): zheu⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): céu
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ziu⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chiù

(Teochew, Peng'im): ziu³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhòu
  - Wade–Giles: chou⁴
  - Yale: jòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
  - Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zau³
  - Yale: jau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: zeo³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
  - Hakka Romanization System: zu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: zhiu^ˇ
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃiu¹¹/
- (Changting)
  - Changting Pinyin: zheu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡ʃəɯ⁵⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: céu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛu²¹³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu⁴
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciu̍
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiù
  - Tâi-lô: tsiù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ciux
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siu²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siu²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡siu¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siu²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ziu³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu²¹³/

Middle Chinese: tsyuwH

Rime
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職救切
Baxter	tsyuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨu^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiu^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəu^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuw^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiu^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*tjus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
No.	17652
Phonetic component	祝
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	呪
Old Chinese	/*tjus/
Notes	同呪

Definitions

咒

religious incantation or mantra; spell
魔咒 (mózhòu, “magical spell”)

大悲咒 (Dàbēizhòu, “Great Compassion Mantra”)
- 2023, “小林不動產”, 梁嘉茵 [Serrini] (lyrics), 林家謙 [Terence Lam] (music)‎^[1]performed by 林家謙 [Terence Lam]:
  
  我　中了懶咒 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
  我　中了懒咒 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]
  ngo⁵, zung³ liu⁵ laan⁵ zau³ [Jyutping]
  I'm under a laziness spell
curse; malediction
to curse; to damn
詛咒／诅咒 (zǔzhòu, “to curse”)

Compounds

三咒
千咒萬罵 / 千咒万骂
咒印
咀咒 (jǔzhòu)
咒咀
咒師 / 咒师
咒心
咒愿
咒文 (zhòuwén)
咒殺 / 咒杀 (zhòushā)
咒水
咒神
咒縛 / 咒缚
咒罵 / 咒骂 (zhòumà)
咒藏
咒術 / 咒术
咒詛 / 咒诅 (zhòuzǔ)
咒詈 (zhòulì)
咒語 / 咒语 (zhòuyǔ)
咒誦 / 咒诵
咒誓 (zhòushì)
咒讖 / 咒谶
咒遍
咒音
咒願 / 咒愿
唸咒 / 念咒 (niànzhòu)
大咒
大悲咒 (Dàbēizhòu)
密咒
往生咒 (wǎngshēngzhòu)
心咒
念咒 (niànzhòu)
普庵咒
書符咒水 / 书符咒水
沒咒念 / 没咒念
牙疼咒 (yáténgzhòu)
發咒 / 发咒
白口咀咒
禁咒
符咒 (fúzhòu)
經咒 / 经咒
緊箍咒 / 紧箍咒 (jǐngūzhòu)
詛咒 / 诅咒 (zǔzhòu)
譴咒 / 谴咒
賭咒 / 赌咒 (dǔzhòu)
魔咒 (mózhòu)

References

“咒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “咒”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.
周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “咒”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 806.

Japanese

Shinjitai	呪
Kyūjitai	咒

Kanji

咒

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 呪)

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Readings

Go-on: しゅ (shu)
Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju)
Kun: まじなう (majinau, 咒う)、のろい (noroi, 咒い)、のろう (norou, 咒う)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu]
Phonetic hangul: [주]

Hanja

Wikisource

咒 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咒: Hán Nôm readings: chú

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