拘

拘 U+62D8, 拘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62D8 ← 拗 [U+62D7] CJK Unified Ideographs 拙 → [U+62D9]

Translingual

Han character

拘 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手心口 (QPR), four-corner 5702₀, composition ⿰扌句)

1. restrain, seize, detain

References

• KangXi: page 426, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11963
• Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1856, character 1
• Unihan data for U+62D8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 拘
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (句) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jū (ju¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ku / khu / khi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: chü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: keoi¹
    • Yale: kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku
    • Tâi-lô: ku
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ku³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰu³³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khi
    • Tâi-lô: khi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 拘
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕy²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕy²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕy²¹/
	Xining	/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕy³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕy³¹/
	Hefei	/t͡sz̩ʷ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕy¹¹/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕy¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕy³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕy⁵³/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷ³³/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕy³³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕy³¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕy¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕy³³/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕy³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕy⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/ki⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kʰøy⁵³/
	Nanning	/kʰy⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/kʰøy⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ku⁵⁵/ /kʰu⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/ky⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ky⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰu³³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ki²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨo/▼

Rime
Character	拘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舉朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/kio/
Shao Rongfen	/kio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuə̆/
Li Rong	/kio/
Wang Li	/kĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jū

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ko/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	拘
Reading #	1/1
No.	7093
Phonetic component	句
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拘
Old Chinese	/*ko/

Definitions

拘

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Compounds

• 不拘 (bùjū)
• 不拘一格
• 不拘小節／不拘小节 (bùjūxiǎojié)
• 不拘細行／不拘细行
• 執拘／执拘
• 急張拘諸／急张拘诸
• 拘介
• 拘俗守常
• 拘倦
• 拘儒
• 拘兒／拘儿
• 拘刷
• 拘囿
• 拘執／拘执
• 拘守
• 拘局
• 拘役 (jūyì)
• 拘忌
• 拘急
• 拘扣
• 拘押 (jūyā)

• 拘拘
• 拘拘儒儒
• 拘拘束束
• 拘拘縮縮／拘拘缩缩
• 拘拿
• 拘捕 (jūbǔ)
• 拘提
• 拘攣／拘挛
• 拘攣兒／拘挛儿
• 拘攣補衲／拘挛补衲
• 拘收
• 拘文牽俗／拘文牵俗
• 拘束 (jūshù)
• 拘板
• 拘檢／拘检
• 拘泥 (jūnì)
• 拘牽／拘牵
• 拘留 (jūliú)
• 拘留所 (jūliúsuǒ)
• 拘礙／拘碍
• 拘神遣將／拘神遣将

• 拘票
• 拘禁 (jūjìn)
• 拘禮／拘礼 (jūlǐ)
• 拘管
• 拘絆／拘绊
• 拘緊／拘紧
• 拘繫／拘系
• 拘謹／拘谨 (jūjǐn)
• 拘鉗／拘钳
• 拘限
• 拘頭／拘头
• 放縱不拘／放纵不拘
• 無拘無束／无拘无束
• 無束無拘／无束无拘
• 疏宕不拘
• 病不拘禮／病不拘礼
• 禮俗所拘／礼俗所拘
• 老不拘禮／老不拘礼
• 行拘
• 通脫不拘／通脱不拘
• 隔山拘火

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Japanese

Kanji

拘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: く (ku) (non-Jōyō reading), こう (kō)
• Kun: かかわる (kakawaru), こだわる (kodawaru), とどめる (todomeru), とらえる (toraeru)

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Korean

Hanja

拘 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune-Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拘 (câu)

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