屨

See also: 屦

Translingual

Han character

屨 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹人女 (SHOV), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿸尸⿰彳婁)

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 304, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7811
• Dae Jaweon: page 602, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 981, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5C68

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Chinese

trad.		屨
simp.		屦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	*roː, *ro
耬	*roː
僂	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	*roː, *ro
廔	*roː
嘍	*roː, *roːʔ
瞜	*roː, *ro
簍	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜	*roː, *ro
褸	*roː, *roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	*roːʔ, *roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	*roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤	*roːs, *ro
瘻	*roːs, *ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jù (ju⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyù
    • Wade–Giles: chü⁴
    • Yale: jyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuh
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: geoi³
    • Yale: geui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kjuH

Rime
Character	屨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	九遇切
Baxter	kjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/kioH/
Shao Rongfen	/kioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuə̆H/
Li Rong	/kioH/
Wang Li	/kĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k-ro-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klos/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jù
Middle Chinese	‹ kjuH ›
Old Chinese	/*k-ro-s/ (dialect: *k-r- > *kr-)
English	sandal, shoe
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	屨
Reading #	1/1
No.	8509
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	屨
Old Chinese	/*klos/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 屨

1. shoe footwear
2. to trample on

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00776

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Japanese

Kanji

屨

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku)
• Kun: くつ (kutsu, 屨)

Usage notes

Used in one poem of the Nihon Shoki as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ku⟩:

• 720, Nihon Shoki (poem 99/102)

  柯羅(から)屨(く)儞嗚(にを)以柯儞輔居等所(いかにふことそ)梅豆羅古枳駄樓(めつらこきたる)武哿左(むかさ)屨(く)樓(る)以祇能和駄唎嗚(いきのわたりを)梅豆羅古枳駄樓(めつらこきたる) [Man'yōgana]

  韓国(からくに)をいかにふことそ目(め)頰(づら)子(こ)来(き)たるむかさくる壱岐(いき)の渡(わた)りを目(め)頰(づら)子(こ)来(き)たる [Modern spelling]

  Karakuni o ika ni fukoto so Mezurako kitaru mukasakuru Iki no watari o Mezurako kitaru

  What has Mezurako come to say about Korea? Why has Mezurako come across the straits of distant Iki?

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Korean

Hanja

屨 (eum 구 (gu))

1. footwear
2. straw sandals
3. sandal
4. wear
5. often
6. frequently

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Vietnamese

Han character

屨: Hán Nôm readings: lũ

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

References

• Nom Foundation