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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意):  (box, enclosure) +  (person) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner.

Han character [edit]

(radical 31 +2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田人 (WO), four-corner 60800)

  1. prisoner, convict
  2. confine

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 216, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4680
  • Dae Jaweon: page 439, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 710, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+56DA

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale chau4)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised su, McCune-Reischauer su)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin qiú (qiu2), Wade-Giles ch'iu2)


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(zhiou)


Min Nan [edit]

Han character [edit]

(siû) (siu5)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

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