囚

囚 U+56DA, 囚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-56DA ← 囙 [U+56D9] CJK Unified Ideographs 四 → [U+56DB]

Translingual

Han character

囚 (radical 31, 囗+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田人 (WO), four-corner 6080₀, composition ⿴囗人)

References

• KangXi: page 216, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4680
• Dae Jaweon: page 439, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 710, character 13
• Unihan data for U+56DA

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		囚
variant forms		𡆢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (囚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鮂	*ʔslu, *lju
囚	*lju
泅	*lju
苬	*lju

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 囗 (“box, enclosure”) + 人 (“person”) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): siù
• Min Nan (POJ): siû
• Wu (Wiktionary): jjieu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'iu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau⁴
    • Yale: chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: siù
    • Hakka Romanization System: xiuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xiu²
    • IPA: /ɕi̯u¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
    • Tâi-lô: siû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɕiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɕiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɕiu²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: jjieu (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /d̥͡ʑiɜ²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 囚
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕʰiou³⁵/ /t͡ɕʰiou⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕʰiou⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕʰiou⁴²/
	Qingdao	/t͡sʰiou⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/siou⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ɕiou²⁴/
	Xining	/ɕiɯ²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕʰiəu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/ɕiou⁵³/ /t͡ɕʰiou⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕʰiɤu⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰiəu²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ɕiəu³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰiəu²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡sʰiəɯ²⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕʰiɯ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/ɕiəu¹¹/
	Pingyao	/ɕiəu¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕʰiəu³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/d͡ʑiɤ²³/
	Suzhou	/zɤ¹³/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑiø²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡ʑɤu³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sʰiu⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰiu⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡siəu¹³/
	Xiangtan	/d͡ziəɯ¹²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/siu¹¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
	Nanning	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sʰɐu²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/siu³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡sʰieu⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sʰiu²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/siu³¹/ /sɔu³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /zɨu/▼

Rime
Character	囚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	似尤切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ziu/
Shao Rongfen	/ziəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zuw/
Li Rong	/ziu/
Wang Li	/zĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*sə.lu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	囚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ zjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lu/
English	prisoner
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	囚
Reading #	1/1
No.	10554
Phonetic component	囚
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*lju/

Definitions

囚

1. prisoner, convict
2. to confine, to imprison

Compounds

• 俘囚
• 劫囚 (jiéqiú)
• 南冠楚囚
• 囚徒 (qiútú)
• 囚攮的
• 囚牢 (qiúláo)
• 囚犯 (qiúfàn)
• 囚禁 (qiújìn)
• 囚籠／囚笼 (qiúlóng)
• 囚糧／囚粮
• 囚繫／囚系
• 囚衣

• 囚車／囚车
• 囚錮鋒／囚锢锋
• 囚首喪面／囚首丧面
• 囚首垢面
• 報官囚／报官囚
• 審囚刷卷／审囚刷卷
• 幽囚
• 幽囚受辱
• 抱官囚
• 楚囚
• 楚囚對泣／楚囚对泣

• 楚囚相對／楚囚相对
• 死囚 (sǐqiú)
• 死囚牢
• 縱囚／纵囚
• 繫囚／系囚
• 纍囚／累囚
• 被囚
• 詩囚／诗囚
• 重囚
• 錄囚／录囚
• 階下囚／阶下囚 (jiēxiàqiú)

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Japanese

Kanji

囚

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じゅ (ju)
• Kan’on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)
• Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 囚える); とらわれる (torawareru, 囚われる)

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Korean

Hanja

囚 • (su) (hangeul 수)

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Vietnamese

Han character

囚 (tù)

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