銖

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See also: 铢
銖 U+9296, 銖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9296
← 銕
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 銗 →

Translingual

Han character

銖 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金竹十木 (CHJD), four-corner 85190, composition ⿰釒朱)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1305, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40383
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4197, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+9296

Chinese

trad. 銖
simp. 铢
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 銖 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 泰銖 (Written Standard Chinese?)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “"baht" is a corruption of 末 (𰼤)?”)

Pronunciation

Note: puag4/puêg4 - "baht" (puêg4 - Chaozhou).
Rime
Character 銖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 市朱切
Baxter dzyu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ʑio/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		syu4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 銖
Reading # 1/1
No. 17581
Phonetic
component 		朱
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		殊
Old
Chinese 		/*djo/

Definitions

銖

  1. (historical) zhu (an ancient Chinese unit of weight notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 liang/tael, chiefly used for denominating small coins)
  2. Thai baht (currency unit)
  3. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

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Kanji

銖

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: じゅ (ju)
  • Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
  • Kun: にぶい (nibui, 銖い)

Korean

Hanja

銖 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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