仇

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See also: 讐
仇 U+4EC7, 仇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC7
← 仆
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 仈 →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

仇 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人大弓 (OKN), four-corner 24217, composition ⿰亻九)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 355
  • Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 109, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4EC7

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 仇
alternative forms 讎／雠 “resentment”
㐜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
s05887
Transcribed ancient scripts
L35394
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尻 *kʰuː
訄 *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓 *qʰruː
鳩 *ku
勼 *ku
九 *kuʔ
究 *kus
仇 *ɡu
鼽 *ɡu
犰 *ɡu
叴 *ɡu
厹 *ɡu
頄 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹 *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏 *ɡu
訅 *ɡu
釚 *ɡu
肍 *ɡu
軌 *kʷrɯwʔ
宄 *kʷrɯwʔ
氿 *kʷrɯwʔ
匭 *kʷrɯwʔ
泦 *kuɡ
旭 *qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡu) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) – spouse.

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 仇
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂʰou³⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴⁵/
/t͡sʰou⁴⁵/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Qingdao /tʃʰou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁴²/
Xi'an /ʈ͡ʂʰou²⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ²⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂʰəu⁵³/
Lanzhou /ʈ͡ʂʰou⁵³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂʰɤu⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡sʰəu²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰəu²¹/ ～恨
/t͡ɕʰiəu²¹/ 姓
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂʰəu³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂʰəɯ²⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂʰɯ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡sʰəu¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡sʰəu¹³/
Hohhot /t͡sʰəu³¹/
Wu Shanghai /zɤ²³/
Suzhou /zɤ¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡zei²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ʈ͡ʂəu¹³/
Xiangtan /ɖ͡ʐəɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡sʰɨu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /su¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʃu¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /sɐu²¹/
Nanning /t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Hong Kong /sɐu²¹/
/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /siu³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /sieu⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sʰiu²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /siu³¹/
/sɔu³¹/
Rime
Character 仇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨鳩切
Baxter gjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/guw/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiu/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qiú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)u/
English mate (*n.)

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 仇
Reading # 1/1
No. 6944
Phonetic
component 		九
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		𧚍
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡu/

Definitions

仇

  1. hatred; enmity; resentment
  2. enemy; foe; adversary
  3. to make reprisals; to retaliate
  4. to proofread; to check against the original

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 仇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨鳩切
Baxter gjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/guw/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiu/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kau4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 仇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qiú
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gjuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)u/
English mate (*n.)

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 仇
Reading # 1/1
No. 6944
Phonetic
component 		九
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		𧚍
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡu/

Definitions

仇

  1. companion; peer
  2. spouse; mate
  3. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

仇

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: ぐ (gu)
  • Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)
  • Kun: あだ (ada, 仇)、かたき (kataki, 仇)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
仇
あだ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

仇(あだ) • (ada) 

  1. foe, enemy

Etymology 2

Noun

仇(かたき) • (kataki) 

  1. Alternative form of 敵

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

仇 (eum 구 (gu))

  1. enemy
  2. hate, hatred
  3. enmity

Vietnamese

Han character

仇: Hán Nôm readings: cừu

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