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See also:
U+5CAB, 岫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5CAB

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 46, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 山中田 (ULW), four-corner 25760, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 309, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7991
  • Dae Jaweon: page 609, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 766, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+5CAB

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ljɯwɢs) : semantic (mountain) + phonetic (OC *lɯw).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (17)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter zjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/zɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ziuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ziəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zuwH/
Li
Rong
/ziuH/
Wang
Li
/zĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zau6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 15511
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ljɯwɢs/

Definitions

  1. mountain peak
  2. cave; cavern
  3. (Southern Min) nest, den or lair of animals

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 267.

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. cave
  2. summit

Readings

  • Go-on: じゅ (ju)
  • Kan-on: しゅう (shū)しう (siu, historical)
  • Kun: くき (kuki, )みさき (misaki, )みね (mine, )

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
くき
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[1]

Noun

(くき) (kuki

  1. (archaic or obsolete) cave
  2. (archaic or obsolete) summit, mountaintop

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
しゅう
Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese (MC zjuwH).

Noun

(しゅう) (shū

  1. (rare) cave

References

  1. ^ ”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006

Korean

Hanja

(su) (hangeul , revised su, McCune–Reischauer su)

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