竺
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Translingual
Han character
竺 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹一一 (HMM), four-corner 88101, composition ⿱𥫗二)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 877, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25842
- Dae Jaweon: page 1306, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 2947, character 2
- Unihan data for U+7AFA
Chinese
| trad. | 竺 | |
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| simp. # | 竺 | |
| alternative forms | 笁 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 竺 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tuːɡ, *tuːɡ, *tuɡ) : phonetic 𥫗 (OC *tuɡ) + semantic 二 ― thick.
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: dǔ
- Wade–Giles: tu3
- Yale: dǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duu
- Palladius: ду (du)
- Sinological IPA (key): /tu²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: duk1
- Yale: dūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: duk7
- Guangdong Romanization: dug1
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: tuwk, towk
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*tuːɡ/
Definitions
竺
- † Original form of 篤／笃 (dǔ, “thick; sincere; serious”).
- † Alternative form of 毒 (“to loathe; to detest”)
- (historical) An ancient placename.
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk1
- Eastern Min (BUC): dé̤ṳk
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tiok
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 7tsoq
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jhú
- Wade–Giles: chu2
- Yale: jú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwu
- Palladius: чжу (čžu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ʈ͡ʂu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zuk1
- Yale: jūk
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk7
- Guangdong Romanization: zug1
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: dé̤ṳk
- Sinological IPA (key): /tøyʔ²⁴/
- (Fuzhou)
- Southern Min
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: trjuwk
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*tuɡ/
Definitions
竺
- (obsolete) bamboo
- Short for 天竺 (Tiānzhú, “India”).
- (by extension) relating to India or Buddhism; Buddhist
- Name of a mountain in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.
- (historical, music) Name of an ancient musical instrument.
- a surname, commonly adopted by early Buddhist monks.
- 竺可楨／竺可桢 ― Zhú Kězhēn ― Chu Coching (Chinese meteorologist and geologist）
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
竺
Readings
- On (unclassified): とく (toku)、ちく (chiku)、じく (jiku)←ぢく (diku, historical)
- Kun: あつい (atsui, 竺い)、たけ (take, 竺)
- Nanori: あつし (atsushi)
Compounds
Proper noun
- a male given name
Korean
Hanja
竺 • (chuk, dok) (hangeul 축, 독, revised chuk, dok, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, tok, Yale chwuk, tok)
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Vietnamese
Han character
竺: Hán Việt readings: trúc[1][2][3][4], đốc[2][3][4]
竺: Nôm readings: trúc[1]
- chữ Hán form of Trúc (“former short name of India (天竺, Thiên Trúc), a surname”).
- Alternative form of 篤 (“chữ Hán form of đốc (“honest”).”)