樹

See also: 树

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 尌

Han character

樹 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木土廿戈 (DGTI), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿰木尌)

References

• KangXi: page 551, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15496
• Dae Jaweon: page 940, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1287, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A39

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Chinese

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trad.		樹
simp.		树

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): syu⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): su
• Min Nan (POJ): chhiū
• Wu (WT Romanisation): zr (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: syu⁶
    • Yale: syuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sy⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕyː²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: su
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /su⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiū
    • Tâi-lô: tshiū
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕʰiu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕʰiu²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: zr (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (樹, reconstructed)
Character (樹), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 臣庾切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨoX/	/ʑi̯uX/	/ʑioX/	/d͡ʑioX/	/d͡ʑuə̆X/	/ʑĭuX/	/d͡ʑioX/
Character (樹), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 常句切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨoH/	/ʑi̯uH/	/ʑioH/	/d͡ʑioH/	/d͡ʑuə̆H/	/ʑĭuH/	/d͡ʑioH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (樹, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
樹								shù								‹ dzyuX ›								/*m-toʔ/								plant (v.); place upright
樹								shù								‹ dzyuH ›								/*m-toʔ-s/								tree
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
樹					17645					壴					侯					0					豎					/*djoʔ/
樹					17648					壴					侯					0					樹					/*djos/

Definitions

樹 (classifier 棵)

1. tree; plant
2. A surname​.
3. to cultivate; to plant, to set up

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Japanese

Kanji

樹

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. tree; plant

Readings

• Goon: じゅ (ju), ず (zu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゅ (shu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kun: き (ki), うえる (ueru), たてる (tateru)

Proper noun

樹 (hiragana いつき, romaji Itsuki)

1. A male given name

樹 (hiragana たつき, romaji Tatsuki)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

樹 (su) (hangeul 수, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

樹 (thụ)

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