炷

炷 U+70B7, 炷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B7 ← 炶 [U+70B6] CJK Unified Ideographs 炸 → [U+70B8]

Translingual

Han character

炷 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火卜土 (FYG), four-corner 9081₄, composition ⿰火主)

1. wick of an oil lamp
2. to burn (incense, etc.)
3. measure word for lit incense sticks

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 669, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18965
• Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2196, character 13
• Unihan data for U+70B7

Chinese

trad.		炷
simp. #		炷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (主) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
    • Wade–Giles: chu⁴
    • Yale: jù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu³
    • Yale: jyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chù
    • Tâi-lô: tsù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuX, tsyuH

Rime
Character	炷	炷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	之庾切	之戍切
Baxter	tsyuX	tsyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoX/	/t͡ɕɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioX/	/t͡ɕioH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioX/	/t͡ɕioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆X/	/cuə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioX/	/t͡ɕioH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuX/	/t͡ɕĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uX/	/t͡ɕi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǔ	zhù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu2	zyu3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjoʔ/, /*tjos/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	炷	炷
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17621	17626
Phonetic component	主	主
Rime group	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	主	注
Old Chinese	/*tjoʔ/	/*tjos/

Definitions

炷

1. to burn (incense, etc.)
2. wick of an oil lamp
3. Classifier for lit incense sticks.

   一炷線香／一炷线香  ―  yī zhù xiànxiāng  ―  an incense stick

Compounds

• 一炷香
• 炷香 (zhùxiāng)
• 燈炷／灯炷
• 艾炷
• 蕙炷
• 蘭炷／兰炷 (lánzhù)
• 頭炷香／头炷香

 

Japanese

Kanji

炷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: たく (taku, 炷く); ともす (tomosu, 炷す); やく (yaku, 炷く)

Korean

Hanja

炷 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

炷: Hán Nôm readings: chú, chụ

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