囚
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Translingual
Han character
囚 (Kangxi radical 31, 囗+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田人 (WO), four-corner 60800, composition ⿴囗人)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 216, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4680
- Dae Jaweon: page 439, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 710, character 13
- Unihan data for U+56DA
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
囚 | |
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| alternative forms | 𡆢 团 𡆥 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 囚 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 囗 (“box, enclosure”) + 人 (“person”) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner. Similar but unrelated to 因. Unrelated to 𥁕.
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): cau4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siù
- Jin (Wiktionary): xiou1
- Eastern Min (BUC): chiù
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6jieu
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
- Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
- Wade–Giles: chʻiu2
- Yale: chyóu
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
- Palladius: цю (cju)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: xiu2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xiu
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕiəu²¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: cau4
- Yale: chàuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsau4
- Guangdong Romanization: ceo4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siù
- Hakka Romanization System: xiuˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: xiu2
- Sinological IPA: /si̯u¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Jin
- Eastern Min
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
- Tâi-lô: siû
- Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
- IPA (Xiamen): /siu²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /siu²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /siu²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu²³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: ciu5
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshiû
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- Dialectal data
- Middle Chinese: zjuw
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lu/
- (Zhengzhang): /*lju/
Definitions
囚
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 囚犯 (“prisoner”) [map]
Compounds
Descendants
References
- “囚”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
Japanese
Kanji
囚
Readings
- Go-on: じゅ (ju)←じゆ (zyu, historical)
- Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)←しう (siu, historical)
- Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 囚える)←とらへる (toraferu, 囚へる, historical)、とらわれる (torawareru, 囚われる)←とらはれる (torafareru, 囚はれる, historical)
Korean
Hanja
囚 • (su) (hangeul 수)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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