徂
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Translingual
Han character
徂 (Kangxi radical 60, 彳+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月一 (HOBM), four-corner 27210, composition ⿰彳且)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 365, character 39
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10078
- Dae Jaweon: page 686, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 816, character 3
- Unihan data for U+5F82
Chinese
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 徂 |
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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 |
Etymology 1
| simp. and trad. |
徂 | |
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Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: cú
- Wade–Giles: tsʻu2
- Yale: tsú
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tswu
- Palladius: цу (cu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰu³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: cou4
- Yale: chòuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: tsou4
- Guangdong Romanization: cou4
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡sʰou̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Middle Chinese: dzu
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*ˤa/
- (Zhengzhang): /*zaː/
Definitions
徂
- (literary) to go; to reach
- 我徂東山、慆慆不歸。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Wǒ cú dōngshān, tāotāo bù guī.
- We went to the hills of the east,
And long were we there without returning.
我徂东山、慆慆不归。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
- (literary) past
- (literary) Alternative form of 殂 (cú, “to die”)
Compounds
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 徂 – see 咗. (This character is a variant form of 咗). |
References
- “徂”, 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–
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
徂 (eum 조 (jo))
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Vietnamese
Han character
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