呪

See also: 咒

呪 U+546A, 呪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-546A ← 呩 [U+5469] CJK Unified Ideographs 呫 → [U+546B]

Translingual

Han character

呪 (radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹山 (RRHU), composition ⿰口兄)

1. pray for haplessness or curses (upon another)
2. curse, hex, damn(ing)
3. spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
4. incantation, mantra, chant

References

• KangXi: page 182, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3443
• Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 601, character 3
• Unihan data for U+546A

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
祝	*tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪	*tjus
咒	*tjus
柷	*tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Etymology

For pronunciation and definitions of 呪 – see 咒 (“religious incantations or mantras; a curse; etc.”). (This character, 呪, is a variant form of 咒.)

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Japanese

Kanji

呪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. charm, curse

Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju, Jōyō)
• Kun: かしる (kashiru, 呪る); しゅす (shusu, 呪す); じゅす (jusu, 呪す); のろう (norou, 呪う, Jōyō); のろわしい (norowashii, 呪わしい); のろい (noroi, 呪い); ほさく (hosaku, 呪く); まじなう (majinau, 呪う)

Compounds

• 呪法(じゅほう) (juhō): magic; (Buddhism) esoteric teachings
• 呪印(じゅいん) (juin): making a vow while closing a seal: a solemn oath
• 呪符(じゅふ) (jufu): written spells

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Korean

Hanja

呪 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Compounds

• 呪文 (주문 (jumun), jumun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

呪: Hán Nôm readings: huếnh

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