舅

Translingual

Han character

舅 (Kangxi radical 134, 臼+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹難田大尸 (HXWKS), four-corner 7742₇, composition ⿱臼男)

Derived characters

• 𡀭, 𭒥, 𬄵, 𧒺

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1004, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3040, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8205

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡuʔ) : phonetic 臼 (OC *ɡuʔ) + semantic 男 (“male; man”).

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)əw-n (“elder brother; senior male relative”); compare Tibetan ཨ་ཁུ (a khu), ཁུ་བོ (khu bo, “father's brother”) (Sagart, 2017d; STEDT). Possibly related to 舊 (OC *ɡʷɯs, “old; ancient”), 昆 (OC *kuːn, “elder brother”) (Sagart, 1999; STEDT); see there for more.

Pronunciation

Definitions

舅

1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)
2. brother-in-law (wife's brother)
3. ^† father-in-law (wife's father or husband's father)
4. ^† feudal prince of a different surname (to an emperor)
5. ^† official of a different surname (to a feudal prince)
6. a surname
7. (Taiwan, botany) used in plant names to indicate naming after a similar species

   苦楝舅  ―  kǔliànjiù  ―  Koelreuteria elegans, a tree that resembles Melia azedarach (苦楝)

   鼠麴舅／鼠曲舅  ―  shǔqūjiù  ―  Gamochaeta purpureum, a herb that resembles Pseudognaphalium affine (鼠麴草)

   欖仁舅／榄仁舅  ―  lǎnrénjiù  ―  Neonauclea reticulata, a tree that resembles Terminalia catappa (欖仁)

Synonyms

Compounds

References

• “舅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: しゅうと (shūto, 舅)

Etymology 1

/sihi1to2/: → → . See next entry.

Noun

舅(しひと) • (shihito) 

1. a father-in-law

Etymology 2

From shihito: → → → → → → .

Noun

舅(しゅうと) • (shūto) ^{←しうと (siuto)?}

1. a father-in-law

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

舅

Wikisource

舅 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

舅: Hán Việt readings: cữu
舅: Nôm readings: cậu, cữu

1. Nôm form of cậu (“maternal uncle, young male master, younger male stranger”).