束

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Derived characters 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Counter 3.3 Kanji 3.3.1 Readings 3.3.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

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

1. bind, control, restrain
2. bale

[edit] Derived characters

• 速

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

束 (Yale chuk1)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

束 (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

束 (hiragana つか, romaji tsuka)

1. handbreadth, bundle

[edit] Counter

束 (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

[edit] Kanji

束 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Compounds

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

束 (pinyin shù (shu4), Wade-Giles shu⁴)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

束 (thúc, thút, súc, thót, thóc)