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See also:
U+8C56, 豖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C56

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 152, +1, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一尸大人 (MSKO), four-corner 10232, composition )

  1. a shackled pig

Derived characters

See also

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1194, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36338
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1657, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3610, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8C56

Chinese

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Small seal script

Pictogram of a male pig with the penis detached from his body, thus indicating a castrated male pig. See also the original version on oracle bones of .

The interpretation of a shackled pig derives from the stylization of the character and belongs to folk etymology. Furthermore, Showen Jiezi interprets the character as a pig with a small foot at the bottom, indicating a pig tripping over itself; however, this interpretation is not linked to the original appearence of the character on oracle bones.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (10)
Final () (8)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter trhjowk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈʰɨok̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈʰiok̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶʰiok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈʰuawk̚/
Li
Rong
/ȶʰiok̚/
Wang
Li
/ȶʰĭwok̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȶʰi̯wok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cuk1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chù
Middle
Chinese
‹ trhjowk ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰrok/
English hobbled pig (Shuōwén)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1625
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰoɡ/

Definitions

  1. male castrated pig

Korean

Hanja

(chuk) (hangeul , revised chuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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