具

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See also: 貝, 真, 俱, and 倶
具 U+5177, 具
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5177
← 其
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 典 →

具 U+2F811, 具
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F811
← 兤
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𠔜 →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes
Japanese 具
Simplified 具
Traditional 具

Alternative forms

Form differs between China and Japan – in China the top component is connected with the long horizontal line, while in Japan they are separate.

The same difference occurs in the characters 真 and 直, which are unrelated etymologically but graphically similar in their current forms.

Han character

具 (Kangxi radical 12, 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月一一金 (BMMC), four-corner 60801, composition ⿱⿴𠀃三八(GHTKV) or ⿳目一八(J or U+2F811))

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 128, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1473
  • Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 246, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5177

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 具
2nd round simp. 𰋙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 具
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Bronze inscriptions

b03421

b03422

b03423

b03424

b03425

b03426

b03427

b03428

b03429

b03430

b03431

b03432

b03433

b03434

b03435

Small seal script

s01984

Transcribed ancient scripts

L20479

L20480

L20481

L20469

L20470

L20471

L20472

L20473

L20474

L20475

L20476

L20477

L20478

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (具) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
俱 *ko, *ɡos
椇 *koʔ
具 *ɡos
埧 *ɡos
颶 *ɡos

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 貝 (“shell, money”) + 廾 (“two hands”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • khî - vernacular;
  • khí - literary.
Note: khū - vernacular.
Rime
Character 具
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 其遇切
Baxter gjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/guə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/ɡioH/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		geoi6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 具
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)o-s/
English arrange, provide

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 具
Reading # 1/1
No. 7133
Phonetic
component 		具
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		懼
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡos/

Definitions

具

  1. tool; implement
    家具  ―  jiājù  ―  furniture
    文具  ―  wénjù  ―  stationery
    玩具  ―  wánjù  ―  toy
    工具  ―  gōngjù  ―  tool; instrument; implement
    器具  ―  qìjù  ―  utensil; implement; tool; ware; instrument
  2. to possess; to have
    具備／具备  ―  jùbèi  ―  to possess; to be equipped with
    別具一格／别具一格  ―  biéjùyīgé  ―  have a style of one's own
  3. (literary) to provide; to furnish
  4. (literary) ability; talent
  5. (literary) to state; to report; to list
  6. † Alternative form of 俱 (“all; every”)
  7. † feast
  8. † in full detail
  9. Classifier for coffins, corpses, and certain instruments.

Compounds

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai 具
Kyūjitai
具󠄁
具+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
具󠄄
具+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

具

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Pronunciation

Counter

具(ぐ) • (-gu) 

  1. sets (armor, furniture)

Noun

具(ぐ) • (gu) 

  1. tool
  2. means
  3. (cooking) secondary ingredient, such as spices, seasonings, and sauces
  4. base

Derived terms

Suffix

具(ぐ) • (-gu) 

  1. tool, ingredient

Related terms

References

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 254 (paper), page 177 (digital)
  2. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 189 (paper), page 106 (digital)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

具 (eumhun 갖출 구 (gatchul gu))

  1. Hanja form? of 구 (“tool; a surname”).

Vietnamese

Han character

具: Hán Nôm readings: cụ, cỗ, gỗ

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