躕

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See also: 蹰
躕 U+8E95, 躕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E95
← 躔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 躖 →

Translingual

Han character

躕 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口一戈土戈 (RMIGI), four-corner 61140, composition ⿰𧾷廚)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1235, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37972
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1708, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3748, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8E95

Chinese

trad. 躕
simp. 蹰
alternative forms 蹰
𨆼
䟞

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (壴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
壴 *tos
廚 *do
躕 *do
櫥 *do
幮 *do
樹 *djoʔ, *djos
澍 *tjos, *djos
尌 *djos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *do) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 廚 (OC *do).

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 躕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ drju ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ro/
English 踟躕 drje.drjo walk hesitatingly

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 躕
Reading # 1/1
No. 17642
Phonetic
component 		壴
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		廚
Old
Chinese 		/*do/

Definitions

躕

  1. Used in 踟躕／踟蹰 (chíchú) and 躕躇／蹰躇 (chúchú).

Compounds

References

  • “躕”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “蹰”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 34.

Japanese

Kanji

躕

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. hesitate
  2. waver
  3. falter

Readings

  • On (unclassified): ちゅ (chu)、じゅ (ju)、じゅう (jū)
  • Kun: ためらう (tamerau)
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