裘

裘 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈水卜竹女 (IEYHV), four-corner 4373₂, composition ⿱求衣)

• 𫱹, 𭯧, 𩱘, 𣰐, 𦽲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1117, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34312
• Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3090, character 9
• Unihan data for U+88D8

Historical forms of the character 裘
Shang
Oracle bone script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷɯ): phonetic 求 (OC *ɡu) + semantic 衣 (“clothes”).

Probably Sino-Tibetan. Various comparanda have been proposed:

• Tibetan གྲུ (gru, “boat (of inflated hides)”) (Bodman, 1980);
• Tamang (¹kuri, “skin”) (Schuessler, 2007);
• Tibetan གོས (gos, “clothes”), Japhug ŋga (“to wear”), Tangut 𗔛 (*gjwi², “to wear”) (Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019; Sims, 2025).

裘

1. fur coat; fur garment

   • 蔡昭侯為兩佩與兩裘以如楚，獻一佩一裘於昭王。
     蔡昭侯为两佩与两裘以如楚，献一佩一裘于昭王。

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Cài Zhāo hóu wéi liǎng pèi yǔ liǎng qiú yǐ rú chǔ, xiàn yī pèi yī qiú yú Zhāo wáng.

     Zhao, marquis of Cai, had made two sets of girdle-ornaments and two robes of fur, with which he went to Chu, where he presented one set and one robe to king Zhao.

2. (literary) to wear a fur coat

   • 是月也，天子始裘。

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shì yuè yě, tiānzǐ shǐ qiú.

     In this month, the son of Heaven sets the example of wearing furs.

3. (Southern Min) padded jacket; lined jacket

   未食五日節粽，破裘毋甘放
   未食五日节粽，破裘毋甘放

   bōe chia̍h Gō͘-ji̍t-cheh chàng, phòa hiû m̄-kam pàng

   Without eating rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, torn padded jackets cannot be discarded (a proverb)

4. a surname

   裘錫圭／裘锡圭  ―  Qiú Xīguī  ―  Qiu Xigui (Chinese paleographer)

• “裘”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: かわごろも (kawagoromo, 裘)^{←かはごろも (kafagoromo, 裘, historical)}

Compound of 皮(かわ) (kawa, “skin”) + 衣(ころも) (koromo, “coat, robe”).

裘(かわごろも) • (kawagoromo) 

1. fur coat

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

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裘: Hán Nôm readings: cừu, cầu

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