拄

Translingual

Han character

拄 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手卜土 (QYG), four-corner 5001₄, composition ⿰扌主)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 424, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11940
• Dae Jaweon: page 772, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1857, character 1
• Unihan data for U+62C4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǔ (zhu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chu³
    • Yale: jǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyu²
    • Yale: jyú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tú
    • Tâi-lô: tú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: trjuX

Rime
Character	拄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	知庾切
Baxter	trjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuə̆X/
Li Rong	/ȶioX/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*t<r>oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ trjuX ›
Old Chinese	/*t<r>oʔ/
English	prop up, support (v.)
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	拄
Reading #	1/1
No.	17607
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拄
Old Chinese	/*toʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 拄

1. to lean on
2. to post
3. to prod
4. ridicule
5. (Southern Min) to meet
6. (Southern Min) just; just now; a moment ago

Synonyms

• (just now):

(deprecated template usage)

• 今仔 (Hokkien)
• 剛剛／刚刚 (gānggāng)
• 剛才／刚才 (gāngcái)
• 方才 (fāngcái)
• 暫／暂 (zàn) (literary)
• 站仔 (Hokkien)
• 適才／适才 (shìcái)

 

References

• “Entry #3963”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

拄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ちゅ (chu)
• Kun: あげる (ageru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 拄 (chủ, trụ, chỏ, chõ)

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