拘

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 426, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11963
• Dae Jaweon: page 774, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ku / khu / khi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyu
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi¹
    • Yale: kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku
    • Tâi-lô: ku
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ku³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /kʰu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰu³³/
  • (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 (Hokkien)	/ku⁵⁵/ /kʰu⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/ky⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ky⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/kʰu³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ki²³/

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• Middle Chinese: kju

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
Baxter	kju
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 拘

1. to arrest; to detain
2. to restrain; to restrict; to constrain
3. to be inflexible
4. to limit
5. ^† to stop; to prevent
6. ^† cramp; spasm
7. ^† beat; meter

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Japanese

Kanji

拘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku); こう (kō, Jōyō)
• Kun: かかわる (kakawaru, 拘わる); こだわる (kodawaru, 拘る); とどめる (todomeru, 拘める); とらえる (toraeru, 拘える)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 拘 (câu)

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