囚

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		囚
alternative 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／会意) : 囗 (“box, enclosure”) + 人 (“person”) – an enclosed person: confinement, prisoner.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 囚

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

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Japanese

Kanji

囚

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅ (ju)^{←じゆ (zyu, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: とらえる (toraeru, 囚える)^{←とらゑる (toraweru, とらゑる, historical)}; 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

(deprecated template usage) 囚 (tù)

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