箸

See also: 筷

Translingual

Han character

箸 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹十大日 (HJKA), four-corner 8860₄)

References

• KangXi: page 891, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2979, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7BB8

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		箸

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³, zyu⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): tī / tū
• Wu (WT Romanisation): zr (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu³, zyu⁶
    • Yale: jyu, jyuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³, dzy⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyː³³/, /t͡ɕyː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī / tū
    • Tâi-lô: tī / tū
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti³³/, /tu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti²²/, /tu²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: zr (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (箸, reconstructed)
Character (箸), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 知 (9) Final: 魚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 陟慮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʈɨʌH/	/ȶi̯woH/	/ȶiɔH/	/ʈiɔH/	/ʈɨə̆H/	/ȶĭoH/	/ȶiɔH/
Character (箸), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 澄 (11) Final: 魚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 遟倨切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɖɨʌH/	/ȡʱi̯woH/	/ȡiɔH/	/ɖiɔH/	/ɖɨə̆H/	/ȡĭoH/	/ȡiɔH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (箸, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
箸								zhù								‹ drjoH ›								/*[d]<r>ak-s/								chopsticks
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
箸					16991					者					魚					0					著					/*tas/					同著
箸					16999					者					魚					0					箸					/*das/

Noun

箸

1. (dialectal) chopsticks (counter: 箸)

Synonyms

• 筷子

Descendants

• Burmese: တူ (tu, “chopsticks”) from (Min Nan)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

箸

はし Grade: S

kun'yomi

Kanji

箸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ちょ (cho), ちゃく (chaku)
• Kun: はし (hashi)

Compounds

• 菜箸 (saibashi)
• 割り箸 (waribashi)
• 箸置き (はしおき, hashioki, “chopstick rest”)

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) は​し [háꜜshì] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕi]

Noun

箸 (hiragana はし, romaji hashi)

1. chopsticks

See also

• おてもと, お手許, お手元, 御手許, 御手元 (otemoto)

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Korean

Hanja

箸 (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

箸 (trứ, trợ)

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Readings

• Nôm: đũa, giạ, trứ, trợ

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999