區

See also: 区

Translingual

Character	區
Unicode name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5340
Code point	U+5340
Entity number	區
Unicode block	CJK Unified Ideographs
← 匿 [U+533F] [U+5341] 十 →

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 匸 + 品

Many people (品) hide in 匸

Han character

區 (radical 23 匸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸口口口 (SRRR), four-corner 7171₆, composition ⿷匸品)

1. area, district, region, ward
2. a surname

Derived characters

• 傴 剾 歐 毆 驅 塸 嶇 嫗

Descendants

• 区

References

• KangXi: page 155, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2691
• Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 87, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5340

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Chinese

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trad.		區
simp.		区

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qū, ōu (qu¹, ou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩ, ㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): au¹, keoi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): khu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: ou¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ou
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: au¹, keoi¹
    • Yale: āu, kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: au¹, koei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /ɐu̯⁵⁵/, /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰu³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (區, reconstructed)
Character (區), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 豈俱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɨo/	/kʰi̯u/	/kʰio/	/kʰio/	/kʰuə̆/	/kʰĭu/	/kʰio/
Character (區), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 烏侯切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔəu/	/ʔə̯u/	/ʔu/	/ʔəu/	/ʔəw/	/əu/	/ʔəu/

Old Chinese pronunciation (區, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
區								ōu								‹ ʔuw ›								/*qˤ(r)o/								(a measure)
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
區					10584					區					侯					0					謳					/*qoː/
區					10605					區					侯					0					區					/*kʰo/

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Japanese

Kanji

區

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 区)

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Readings

• On: く (ku), おう (ō), こう (kō)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), しきる (shikiru)

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Korean

Hanja

區 (gu, u) (hangeul 구, 우, revised gu, u, McCune-Reischauer ku, u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

區 (khu, khù, au, âu)

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