劬

劬 U+52AC, 劬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52AC ← 劫 [U+52AB] CJK Unified Ideographs 劭 → [U+52AD]

Translingual

Han character

劬 (Kangxi radical 19, 力+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心口大尸 (PRKS), four-corner 2462₇, composition ⿰句力)

1. be diligent, toil, endeavor

Derived characters

• 𦮿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 147, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2317
• Dae Jaweon: page 331, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 368, character 12
• Unihan data for U+52AC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		劬
alternative forms		𭇕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qú (qu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü²
    • Yale: chyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: keoi⁴
    • Yale: kèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gju

Rime
Character	劬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	其俱切
Baxter	gju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡio/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡio/
Wang Li	/ɡĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	keoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ](r)o/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	劬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qú
Middle Chinese	‹ gju ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ](r)o/
English	toil
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	劬
Reading #	1/1
No.	7109
Phonetic component	句
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	衢
Old Chinese	/*ɡo/

Definitions

劬

1. Only used in 勤劬 (qínqú).

Japanese

Kanji

劬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: つかれる (tsukareru)

Korean

Hanja

劬 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

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Vietnamese

Han character

劬: Hán Nôm readings: cù

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