咀
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See also: 嘴
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Translingual
Han character
咀 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口月一 (RBM), four-corner 67010, composition ⿰口且)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 184, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3476
- Dae Jaweon: page 403, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 599, character 17
- Unihan data for U+5480
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 咀 |
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| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Small seal script |
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| Old Chinese | |
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| 虘 | *zaːl, *zaː |
| 蔖 | *zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ |
| 摣 | *rnaː, *ʔsraː |
| 袓 | *ʔsjaː, *zaʔ |
| 怚 | *ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ |
| 罝 | *ʔsjaː |
| 謯 | *ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ |
| 姐 | *ʔsjaːʔ |
| 抯 | *ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː |
| 飷 | *ʔsjaːʔ |
| 且 | *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa |
| 趄 | *sʰjaːs, *sʰa |
| 笡 | *sʰjaːs |
| 查 | *ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː |
| 柤 | *ʔsraː |
| 樝 | *ʔsraː |
| 皻 | *ʔsraː |
| 渣 | *ʔsraː |
| 楂 | *zraː |
| 苴 | *zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa |
| 駔 | *ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ |
| 租 | *ʔsaː |
| 蒩 | *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa |
| 祖 | *ʔsaːʔ |
| 組 | *ʔsaːʔ |
| 珇 | *ʔsaːʔ |
| 靻 | *ʔsaːʔ |
| 粗 | *sʰaː, *zaːʔ |
| 徂 | *zaː |
| 殂 | *zaː |
| 麆 | *zaːʔ, *zras |
| 伹 | *zaːʔ, *sʰa |
| 蛆 | *ʔsa, *sʰa |
| 沮 | *ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra |
| 咀 | *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ |
| 疽 | *sʰa |
| 雎 | *sʰa |
| 狙 | *sʰa, *sʰas |
| 岨 | *sʰa |
| 砠 | *sʰa |
| 坥 | *sʰa, *sʰas |
| 刞 | *sʰas |
| 覰 | *sʰas |
| 覷 | *sʰas |
| 跙 | *zaʔ |
| 筯 | *das |
| 菹 | *ʔsra |
| 葅 | *ʔsra |
| 阻 | *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras |
| 俎 | *ʔsraʔ |
| 詛 | *ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras |
| 鉏 | *zra, *zraʔ |
| 豠 | *zra |
| 鋤 | *zra |
| 耡 | *zra, *zras |
| 齟 | *zraʔ |
| 助 | *zras |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ) : semantic 口 (“speech”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).
Etymology 1
| simp. and trad. |
咀 | |
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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s (“to eat; food; to feed; rice”); cognate with Tibetan ཟ (za, “to eat”), Burmese စား (ca:, “to eat”), Chepang (jeʔ-sa, “to eat”), Japhug ndza (“to eat”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019). Possibly related to 餐 (OC *sʰaːn, “to eat; meal”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˇ
- Tongyong Pinyin: jyǔ
- Wade–Giles: chü3
- Yale: jyǔ
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeu
- Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡ɕy²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: zeoi2
- Yale: jéui
- Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey2
- Guangdong Romanization: zêu2
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sɵy̯³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
- Tâi-lô: tsú
- Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
- IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁵³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chír
- Tâi-lô: tsír
- IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chó͘
- Tâi-lô: tsóo
- Phofsit Daibuun: zor
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sɔ⁵³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: zu1
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsu
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡su³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
- Wu
- Middle Chinese: dzjoX, tsjoX
- Old Chinese
- (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaʔ/, /*zaʔ/
Definitions
咀
Compounds
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 咀 – see 嘴 (“mouth; etc.”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified, second-round simplified, and variant form of 嘴). |
Notes:
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Usage notes
It is still commonly used as a shorthand. Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of 咀 as the simplified form of 嘴 (zuǐ).
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
咀
Readings
- Go-on: ぞ (zo)
- Kan-on: しょ (sho)
- Kan’yō-on: そ (so)
- Kun: かむ (kamu, 咀む)、あじわう (ajiwau, 咀わう)←あぢはふ (adifafu, 咀はふ, historical)
References
- ^ “咀”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
Korean
Hanja
咀 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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