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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Han character[edit]

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 50906)

  1. bind, control, restrain
  2. bale

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(jyutping cuk1, Yale chuk1)


Japanese[edit]

Counter[edit]

(hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

  1. counter for bundles
    • それは一束十円の値段でした
      それはひとたばじゅうえんのねだんでした
      sore wa hitotaba jūen no nedan deshita
      They cost 10 yen a bundle

(hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

  1. large bundles

Kanji[edit]

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

  • 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

Noun[edit]

(hiragana たば, romaji taba)

  1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil
    • 彼は古い手紙を束にした
      かれはふるいてがみをたばにした
      kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita
      He bound old letters into a bundle

(hiragana つか, romaji tsuka)

  1. handbreadth, bundle

Suffix[edit]

(hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

  1. bundle

(hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

  1. (mathematics) lattice

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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


Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

(pinyin shù (shu4), Wade-Giles shu4)


Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

(thúc, thút, súc, thót, thóc)