措

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措 U+63AA, 措
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63AA
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 掫 →

Translingual

Han character

措 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手廿日 (QTA), four-corner 54061, composition ⿰扌昔)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 439, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12286
  • Dae Jaweon: page 790, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1891, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+63AA

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 措
alternative forms 𢵄
錯／错
厝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 措
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (昔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
借 *ʔsjaːɡs, *ʔsjaːɡ
唶 *ʔsjaːɡs
藉 *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ
躤 *zjaːɡs
蜡 *zraːɡs, *sʰaːɡs
齰 *zraːɡs, *zraːɡ
醋 *sʰaːɡs
錯 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
措 *sʰaːɡs
厝 *sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
逪 *sʰaːɡ
剒 *sʰaːɡ
鵲 *sʰaɡ
碏 *sʰaɡ
踖 *sʰaɡ, *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
趞 *sʰaɡ
皵 *sʰaɡ, *sʰjaːɡ
舄 *sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
斮 *ʔsraɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
簎 *zraːwɢ, *sʰraːɡ, *zjaːɡ
諎 *ʔsraːɡ
矠 *sʰreːɡ, *zreːɡ
庴 *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
籍 *zjaːɡ
耤 *zjaːɡ
猎 *zjaːɡ
昔 *sjaːɡ
惜 *sjaːɡ
腊 *sjaːɡ
焟 *sjaːɡ
棤 *sjaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːɡs) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 昔 (OC *sjaːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 措
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 清 (14)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 倉故切
Baxter tshuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰuoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰuoH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰoH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰɔH/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰoH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰuoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		cù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cou3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 措
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		cuò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tshuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁak-s/
English place (v.)

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 措
Reading # 1/1
No. 13277
Phonetic
component 		昔
Rime
group 		暮
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		厝
Old
Chinese 		/*sʰaːɡs/

Definitions

措

  1. to place; to put in order; to arrange
  2. to employ; to administer
  3. to collect; to measure
  4. to make plans
  5. to move; to act; to conduct
  6. wording

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

措

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to put, to place
  2. to act, to conduct

Readings

  • Go-on: す (su)
  • Kan-on: そ (so, Jōyō)
  • Kun: おく (oku, 措く)

Korean

Hanja

措 • (jo, chaek) (hangeul 조, 책, revised jo, chaek, McCune–Reischauer cho, ch'aek, Yale co, chayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

措: Hán Nôm readings: thố, số, thá, thó, láp, thò

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