紂

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See also: 纣
紂 U+7D02, 紂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D02
← 紁
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 紃 →

Translingual

Han character

紂 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火木戈 (VFDI), four-corner 24900, composition ⿰糹寸)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 915, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27239
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1343, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3364, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7D02

Chinese

trad. 紂
simp. 纣

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (肘) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肘 *tkuʔ
疛 *tuʔ, *dus
紂 *duʔ
葤 *duʔ
酎 *l'us

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *duʔ) : semantic 糹 + abbreviated phonetic 肘 (OC *tkuʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 紂
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 除柳切
Baxter drjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɖɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɖiuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȡiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɖuwX/
Li
Rong 		/ȡiuX/
Wang
Li 		/ȡĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ȡʱi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 紂
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drjuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ruʔ/
English leather belt used on the rump of a horse hitched to a cart; name of last Shāng ruler

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 紂
Reading # 1/1
No. 17546
Phonetic
component 		肘
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		紂
Old
Chinese 		/*duʔ/

Definitions

紂

  1. King Zhou of the Shang dynasty
  2. (archaic) crupper (part of a saddle or carriage attachment)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

紂

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: じゅう (jū)
  • Kan-on: ちゅう (chū)
  • Kun: しりがい (shirigai)

Korean

Hanja

紂 (eum 주 (ju))

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Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

紂: Hán Việt readings: trụ

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References

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