區

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See also: 区
區 U+5340, 區
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5340
← 匿
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 十 →

Translingual

Japanese 区
Simplified 区
Traditional 區

Han character

區 (Kangxi radical 23, 匸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸口口口 (SRRR), four-corner 71716, composition ⿷匚品(GJKV) or ⿷匸品(HT))

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 155, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2691
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 87, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5340

Chinese

trad. 區
simp. 区

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 區
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 匸 + 品 – Many people (品) are inside 匸.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 區
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 豈俱切
Baxter khju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰuə̆/
Li
Rong 		/kʰio/
Wang
Li 		/kʰĭu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		heoi1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
No. 10605
Phonetic
component 		區
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		區
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰo/

Definitions

區

  1. area; district; region; ward
    生態涵養區／生态涵养区  ―  shēngtài hányǎng qū  ―  ecological conservation area
  2. administrative division
  3. to distinguish; to differentiate
  4. residence; dwelling
  5. small house
  6. world; the human world
  7. small; tiny
  8. mediocre; ordinary
Synonyms
  • (area):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (區):
  • → Japanese: 区(く) (ku)
  • → Korean: 구(區) (gu)
  • → Vietnamese: khu (區)

Others:

  • → English: qu
  • → Zhuang: gih

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Note: au - surname.
Rime
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏侯切
Baxter 'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔəw/
Li
Rong 		/ʔu/
Wang
Li 		/əu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		au1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 區
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*qˁ(r)o/
English (a measure)

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 區
Reading # 1/2
No. 10584
Phonetic
component 		區
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		謳
Old
Chinese 		/*qoː/

Definitions

區

  1. (historical) an ancient measuring vessel
  2. (historical) Classifier for the amount measured by one ou.
  3. a surname
Descendants

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

区

Kyūjitai

區

Kanji

區

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 区)

  1. ward
  2. district

Readings

  • Go-on: う (u)、く (ku)
  • Kan-on: おう (ō)、く (ku)
  • On: きゅう (kyū)←きう (kiu, historical)、こう (kō)

Korean

Hanja

區 (eumhun 구역 구 (guyeok gu))

  1. hanja form? of 구 (“area; district; region; ward”)

Vietnamese

Han character

區: Hán Nôm readings: khu, khù, au, âu

  1. chữ Hán form of khu (“district, ward”).

Zhuang

Proper noun

區

  1. Sawndip form of gih
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