束

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – bag tied at both ends (earlier forms were often vertically symmetric).

Han character

束 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木口)

1. bind, control, restrain
2. bale

Derived characters

• 速

References

• KangXi: page 512, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 3
• Unihan data for U+675F

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		束

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cuk¹
    • Yale: chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (束, reconstructed)
Character (束), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 書 (26) Final: 燭 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 書玉切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɕɨok̚/	/ɕi̯wok̚/	/ɕiok̚/	/ɕiok̚/	/ɕuawk̚/	/ɕĭwok̚/	/ɕiok̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (束, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
束								shù								‹ syowk ›								/*s-tʰok/								bind; bundle
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
束					11893					束					屋					0					束					/*hljoɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

束

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そく (soku)
• Kun: たば (taba), たばねる (束ねる, tabaneru), つか (tsuka), つかねる (束ねる, tsukaneru)

Compounds

束髪 (sokuhatsu): bundled hair 束帯 (sokutai): old ceremonial court dress 束縛 (sokubaku): restraint, shackles 束ね (tabane): bundle, management 装束 (shōzoku): costume, attire

約束 (yakusoku): arrangement, convention 拘束 (kōsoku): restriction, restraint 結束 (kessoku): union, unity 花束 (hanataba): bunch of flowers

札束 (satsutaba): wad of bills 束ねる (tabaneru): tie up in a bundle 束の間 (tsukanoma): brief space of time 束になって (taba ni natte): in a bunch

Counter

束 (hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

1. counter for bundles

   それは一束十円 (ひとたばじゅうえん)の値段 (ねだん)でした

   sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita

   They cost 10 yen a bundle

束 (hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

1. large bundles

Noun

束 (hiragana たば, romaji taba)

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼 (かれ)は古 (ふる)い手紙 (てがみ)を束 (たば)にした

   kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita

   He bound old letters into a bundle

束 (hiragana つか, romaji tsuka)

1. handbreadth, bundle

Suffix

束 (hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

1. bundle

束 (hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

1. (mathematics) lattice

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Korean

Hanja

束 (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

束 (thúc, thút, súc, thót, thóc)

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