趣

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 走 (“walk”) + phonetic 取 – to hasten (walking) towards an object of interest.

Han character

趣 (radical 156 走+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土人尸十水 (GOSJE), four-corner 4180₄)

1. what attracts one's attention
2. interesting
3. to interest

References

• KangXi: page 1218, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37207
• Dae Jaweon: page 1689, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3490, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8DA3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

趣 (Yale cheui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

趣 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu), そく (soku), そう (sō)
• Kun: おもむき (omomuki), おもむく (omomuku), うながす (unagasu)

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Korean

Hanja

趣 (hangeul 취, 축, revised chwi, chuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi, ch'uk, Yale chwi, chwuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

趣 (pinyin qù (qu4), Wade-Giles ch'ü⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

趣 (thú, xú)