圩

圩 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土一木 (GMD), four-corner 4114₀, composition ⿰土于)

• 𰁴

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 223, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4882
• Dae Jaweon: page 456, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 418, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5729

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 土 (“earth”) + phonetic 于 (OC *ɢʷa). Compare 圬.

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圩

1. (especially in southern China) dike; embankment

   • 其修圩、築岸、開河、濬湖所支口糧，不責償。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     其修圩、筑岸、开河、濬湖所支口粮，不责偿。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 17^th-18^th century, History of Ming

     Qí xiū wéi, zhù àn, kāi hé, jùn hú suǒ zhī kǒuliáng, bù zé cháng. [Pinyin]

     The provisions supplied for repairing levees, building embankments, dredging rivers, and deepening lakes were not required to be repaid.

2. stockade surrounding a village; or the village surrounded, i.e. enclosure

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圩

1. sunken, concave

   • 魯襄公二十二年而孔子生，生而首上圩頂，故因名曰丘云。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     鲁襄公二十二年而孔子生，生而首上圩顶，故因名曰丘云。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Lǔ Xiāng Gōng èrshí'èr nián ér Kǒng Zǐ shēng, shēng ér shǒu shàng yú dǐng, gù yīn míng yuē Qiū yún. [Pinyin]

     In the 22nd year of Duke Xiang of Lu, Confucius was born. At birth, the top of his head was concave, and thus he was named Qiu (meaning "hill").

圩

1. (Mainland China) alternative form of 墟 (xū, “fair; market”)

• “圩”, 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–
• 羅竹風 [Luo, Zhufeng], editor (1986–1994), “圩”, in 漢語大詞典 [Hanyu Da Cidian] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00498

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. dike, embankment

• On (unclassified): う (u)、お (o)、い (i)、きょ (kyo)
• Kun: つつみ (tsutsumi, 圩)、きし (kishi, 圩)、くぼむ (kubomu, 圩む)

圩 (eumhun 오목할 우 (omokhal u))

1. concave, hollowed
2. to be sunken, to be depressed
3. water's edge
4. dike, embankment
5. salt field

圩: Hán Việt readings: vu
圩: Nôm readings: vò, vu, vùa, khư

1. chữ Nôm form of vu (“to falsely accuse”)
2. chữ Nôm form of khư (“dike, embankment”)

• Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation [Hội Bảo Tồn Di Sản Chữ Nôm] (since 1999) “圩”, in Nomfoundation.org‎^[2] (in English)