糾

糾 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+2 in Chinese, 糸+3 in Japanese, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 女火女中 (VFVL), four-corner 2290₀, composition ⿰糹丩)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 915, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27227
• Dae Jaweon: page 1342, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3362, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7CFE

Historical forms of the character 糾
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯw, *krɯwʔ) : phonetic 丩 (OC *kɯw, *krɯw, “to entangle”) + semantic 糹 (“silk”). Originally written 丩.

Compare possibly Burmese ကျိုး (kyui:, “result, effect, advantage”) (Luce, 1981).

糾

1. to investigate; to inspect
2. to correct
3. to entwine; to wind
4. to gather; to amass; to assemble
5. to inform against; to inform on
6. (Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien) to contract; to shrink; to tense; to taut (of muscles, etc.)
7. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien, specifically) to shrink due to absorbing water (of cloth, etc.)
8. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien, specifically) to become skinny, contracted, or disappear (caused by some reason)

• (to contract, to shrink due to absorbing water, to become skinny): (Hokkien) 勼 (jiū)

• “糾”, 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–
• “Query for 糾”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. twist, ask, investigate, verify

• Go-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: あざなう (azanau, 糾う)、ただす (tadasu, 糾す)

From Middle Chinese 糾 (MC kjiwX).

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

糾

Wikisource

糾 (eumhun 꼴 규 (kkol gyu))

1. hanja form^? of 규 (“twist, writhe”)
2. hanja form^? of 규 (“investigate, inspect”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

糾: Hán Nôm readings: củ

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