靴

Translingual

Han character

靴 (radical 177 革+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿十人心 (TJOP), four-corner 4451₀, composition ⿰革化)

1. boots (footwear)

References

• KangXi: page 1385, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42729
• Dae Jaweon: page 1900, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4327, character 21
• Unihan data for U+9774

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Cantonese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hœː˥/

Hanzi

靴 (Yale heu1)

1. boots

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Japanese

Kanji

靴 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. footwear, footgear: shoe(s), boot(s)

Readings

• On: か (ka), (historical) くゎ (kwa)
• Kun: くつ (kutsu)

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• Standard Accent: くつ​ (Odaka)

IPA: /ku.tuꜜ/, [kɯ̥ᵝ˨.t͡sɯᵝ˦]

Etymology

Unclear. Some Japanese sources suggest a borrowing from or cognate with Korean 구두 (gudu, “shoes”), but then some Korean sources suggest that the Korean term was borrowed from Japanese 靴 (kutsu, “shoes”).

Alternative forms

• 沓, 履, 鞋

Noun

靴 (hiragana くつ, romaji kutsu)

1. footwear, footgear: a shoe, (a pair of) shoes; a boot, (a pair of) boots

Synonyms

• シューズ (shūzu)

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Korean

Hanja

靴 (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

1. (가죽 신 화, gajuk-sin-): footwear made of leather

Compounds

• 木靴 (목화, mokhwa) The courtesy footwear in the Eastern tradition, as worn by courtiers, somewhat similar to the moccasin made of deerskin.
• 洋靴 (양화, yanghwa) Western shoes, boots
• 長靴 (장화, janghwa) boots

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Mandarin

Hanzi

靴 (pinyin xuē (xue1), Wade-Giles hsüeh¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

靴 (ngoa)