束

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束 U+675F, 束
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-675F
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 杠 →

Translingual

Han character

束 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 50906, composition ⿻木口)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 512, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
  • Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1158, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+675F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 束

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 束
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (束) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涑 *sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
鏉 *sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
摗 *sloː
駷 *sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
嗽 *sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
瘶 *sloːɡs
欶 *sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
漱 *sloːɡs, *srus
捒 *sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
悚 *sloŋʔ
竦 *sloŋʔ
娕 *sʰroːɡ
梀 *sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
速 *sloːɡ
餗 *sloːɡ
殐 *sloːɡ
遬 *sloːɡ
蔌 *sloːɡ
樕 *sloːɡ
藗 *sloːɡ
誎 *sʰloɡ
束 *hljoɡ

Ideogram (指事) – bag tied at both ends (earlier forms were often vertically symmetric) similar to 東.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 束
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 鍾 (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 書玉切
Baxter syowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɕɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɕiok̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɕiok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɕuawk̚/
Li
Rong 		/ɕiok̚/
Wang
Li 		/ɕĭwok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ɕi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		shu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		suk1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 束
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		shù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ syowk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-tʰok/
English bind; bundle

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 束
Reading # 1/1
No. 11893
Phonetic
component 		束
Rime
group 		屋
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		束
Old
Chinese 		/*hljoɡ/

Definitions

束

  1. to bind; to tie up
    束縛／束缚  ―  shùfù  ―  to bind; to tie up
  2. (now in compounds) to control; to restrain
    拘束  ―  jūshù  ―  restraint; inhibited; constraint
  3. (now in compounds) end
    結束／结束  ―  jiéshù  ―  end
  4. bunch; bundle; bale
    光束  ―  guāngshù  ―  light beam
  5. (geometry) pencil (family of geometric objects with a common property)
    平面束  ―  píngmiànshù  ―  pencil of planes
  6. Classifier for objects in bunches or bundles, such as bouquets of flowers. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
    一束玫瑰  ―  yī shù méiguī  ―  a bouquet of roses
  7. a surname
Synonyms
  • (to control):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

束

  1. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to cling to something and climb upwards (of a person)
  2. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to bind or tie tightly
  3. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to absorb (moisture, etc.)
Synonyms
  • (to absorb):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

束

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. bunch
  2. to bind
  3. to end

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
束
たば
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Counter

束(たば) • (-taba) 

  1. counter for bundles
    それは一(ひと)束(たば)十(じゅう)円(えん)の値段(ねだん)でした
    sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita
    They cost 10 yen a bundle

Noun

束(たば) • (taba) 

  1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil
    彼(かれ)は古(ふる)い手(て)紙(がみ)を束(たば)にした
    kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita
    He bound old letters into a bundle
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
束
つか
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

束(つか) • (tsuka) 

  1. handbreadth, bundle
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
束
そく
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Counter

束(そく) • (-soku) 

  1. large bundles

Noun

束(そく) • (soku) 

  1. (mathematics, order theory) lattice

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →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

束 (eumhun 묶을 속 (mukkeul sok))

  1. Hanja form? of 속 (“bunch; to bind”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

束: Hán Nôm readings: thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc, thắt

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