炷

炷	U+70B7, 炷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B7

← 炶
[U+70B6]

CJK Unified Ideographs

炸 →
[U+70B8]

Translingual

Han character

炷 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火卜土 (FYG), four-corner 9081₄, composition ⿰火主)

wick of an oil lamp
to burn (incense, etc.)
measure word for lit incense sticks

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 669, character 6
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18965
Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2196, character 13
Unihan data for U+70B7

Chinese

trad.		炷
simp. ^#		炷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	doːɡ, tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	toʔ, doʔ
駐	*tos
註	tos, tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	tos, dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	tjoʔ, tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chù

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
  - Wade–Giles: chu⁴
  - Yale: jù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
  - Palladius: чжу (čžu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: zyu³
  - Yale: jyu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ju³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chù
  - Tâi-lô: tsù
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zux
  - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡su¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²¹/

Middle Chinese: tsyuX, tsyuH

Rime
Character	炷	炷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	之庾切	之戍切
Baxter	tsyuX	tsyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨo^X/	/t͡ɕɨo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕio^X/	/t͡ɕio^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕio^X/	/t͡ɕio^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆^X/	/cuə̆^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕio^X/	/t͡ɕio^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭu^X/	/t͡ɕĭu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯u^X/	/t͡ɕi̯u^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǔ	zhù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu²	zyu³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*tjoʔ/, /*tjos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	炷	炷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17621	17626
Phonetic component	主	主
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	主	注
Old Chinese	/*tjoʔ/	/*tjos/

Definitions

炷

to burn (incense, etc.)
wick of an oil lamp
Classifier for lit incense sticks.
一炷線香／一炷线香 ― yī zhù xiànxiāng ― an incense stick

Compounds

一炷香
炷香 (zhùxiāng)
燈炷 / 灯炷
艾炷
蕙炷
蘭炷 / 兰炷 (lánzhù)
頭炷香 / 头炷香

Japanese

Kanji

炷

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: す (su)
Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
Kun: たく (taku, 炷く)、ともす (tomosu, 炷す)、やく (yaku, 炷く)

Korean

Hanja

炷 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

炷: Hán Nôm readings: chú, chụ

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