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Translingual
Han character
紂 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火木戈 (VFDI), four-corner 24900, composition ⿰糹寸)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 915, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27239
- Dae Jaweon: page 1343, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3364, character 3
- Unihan data for U+7D02
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 肘
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*tkuʔ
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| 疛
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*tuʔ, *dus
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| 紂
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*duʔ
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| 葤
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*duʔ
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| 酎
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*l'us
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *duʔ) : semantic 糹 + abbreviated phonetic 肘 (OC *tkuʔ).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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紂
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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zhòu
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ drjuwX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ruʔ/
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| English
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leather belt used on the rump of a horse hitched to a cart; name of last Shāng ruler
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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紂
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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17546
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Phonetic
component
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肘
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Rime
group
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幽
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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紂
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Old
Chinese
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/*duʔ/
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Definitions
紂
- King Zhou of the Shang dynasty
- (archaic) crupper (part of a saddle or carriage attachment)
Compounds
References
- “紂”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “纣”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.
Japanese
Kanji
紂
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
紂 (eum 주 (ju))
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Vietnamese
Chữ Hán
紂: Hán Việt readings: trụ
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References