舅

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 臼 + semantic 男 (“man”) – uncle, a kind of man.

Han character

舅 (radical 134 臼+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹X田大尸 (HXWKS), four-corner 7742₇, composition ⿱臼男)

1. mother's brother, uncle

References

• KangXi: page 1004, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30208
• Dae Jaweon: page 1460, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3040, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8205

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Cantonese

Hanzi

舅 (Jyutping kau5, kau3, Yale kau5, kau3)

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Japanese

Etymology 1

/sihi1to2/: [shipitwo] → [shiɸitwo] → [shiɸito]. See next entry.

Noun

舅 (hiragana しひと, romaji shihito)

1. a father-in-law

Etymology 2

From shihito: [shipitwo] → [shiɸitwo] → [shiɸito] → [shiɸuto] → [shiwuto] → [shiuto] → [shuːto].

Noun

舅 (hiragana しゅうと, romaji shūto, historical hiragana しうと)

1. a father-in-law

Kanji

舅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: しゅうと (shuuto)

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Korean

Hanja

舅 (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

舅 (Pinyin jiù (jiu4), yú (yu2), yù (yu4), Wade-Giles chiu⁴, yü², yü⁴)

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Compounds

• 舅舅