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See also: 真, 俱, and 倶

具	U+2F811, 具 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F811

← 兤
[U+2F810]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

𠔜 →
[U+2F812]

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	具
Simplified	具
Traditional	具

Alternative forms

Form differs between China and Japan – in China the top component is connected with the long horizontal line, while Japan they are separate.

The same difference occurs in the characters 真 and 直, which are unrelated etymologically but graphically similar in their current forms.

Han character

具 (Kangxi radical 12, 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月一一金 (BMMC), four-corner 6080₁, composition ⿱⿴𠀃三八(GHTKV) or ⿳目一八(J))

Descendants

𛀰

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 128, character 1
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1473
Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 11
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 246, character 4
Unihan data for U+5177

Chinese

simp. and trad.		具
alternative forms		⿵冂大 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 具
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Bronze inscriptions b03421 b03422 b03423 b03424 b03425 b03426 b03427 b03428 b03429 b03430 b03431 b03432 b03433 b03434 b03435 Small seal script s01984 Transcribed ancient scripts L20479 L20480 L20481 L20469 L20470 L20471 L20472 L20473 L20474 L20475 L20476 L20477 L20478
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
俱	ko, ɡos
椇	*koʔ
具	*ɡos
埧	*ɡos
颶	*ɡos

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 貝 (“shell, money”) + 廾 (“two hands”).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 具

tool; implement
家具 ― jiājù ― furniture

文具 ― wénjù ― stationery

玩具 ― wánjù ― toy

工具 ― gōngjù ― tool; instrument; implement

器具 ― qìjù ― utensil; implement; tool; ware; instrument
to possess; to have
具備／具备 ― jùbèi ― to possess; to be equipped with

別具一格／别具一格 ― biéjùyīgé ― have a style of one's own
(literary) to provide; to furnish
(literary) ability; talent
(literary) to state; to report; to list
^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 俱 (jù, “all; every”).
^† feast
^† in full detail
Classifier for coffins, corpses, and certain instruments.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

具

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ぐ (gu, Jōyō)
Kan-on: く (ku)
Kun: そなえる (sonaeru, 具える); そなえ (sonae, 具え); つぶさに (tsubusani, 具に)

Counter

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|く]]

sets (armor, furniture)

Noun

具(ぐ) • (gu)

tool
means
(cooking) secondary ingredient, such as spices, seasonings, and sauces
base

Derived terms

留め具

Suffix

具(ぐ) or 具(suffix) • (gu or suffix) [[Category:Japanese Lua error in Module:debug at line 160: Invalid part of speech.
|く]]

tool, ingredient

Compounds

Related terms

Korean

Hanja

具 • (gu)

Eumhun:
- Sound (hangeul): 구 (McCune–Reischauer: ku)
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  (revised: gatchuda, McCune–Reischauer: katch'uda, Yale: kacchwuta)

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Vietnamese

Han character

具: Hán Nôm readings: cụ, cỗ, gỗ

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