束

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 束
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Ideogram (指事) – bag tied at both ends (earlier forms were often vertically symmetric).

Han character

束 (radical 75 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木口)

1. bind, control, restrain
2. bale

Derived characters

• 速

References

• KangXi: page 512, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 3
• Unihan data for U+675F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		束

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cuk¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): suk / sok
• Min Nan (POJ): sok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cuk¹
    • Yale: chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: suk / sok
    • Hakka Romanization System: sug` / sog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁵ / sog⁵
    • IPA: /suk̚²/, /sok̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok
    • Tâi-lô: sok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sog
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔk̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɕɨok̚/▼

Rime
Character	束
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	燭 (8)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	書玉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕuawk̚/
Li Rong	/ɕiok̚/
Wang Li	/ɕĭwok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯wok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*s-tʰok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljoɡ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	束
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shù
Middle Chinese	‹ syowk ›
Old Chinese	/*s-tʰok/
English	bind; bundle
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	束
Reading #	1/1
No.	11893
Phonetic component	束
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	束
Old Chinese	/*hljoɡ/

Definitions

束

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Japanese

Kanji

束

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: そく (soku)
• Kan’on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: たば (taba), たばねる (束ねる, tabaneru), つか (tsuka), つかねる (束ねる, tsukaneru)

Compounds

• 結束 (けっそく) ‎(kessoku): union, unity
• 拘束 (こうそく) ‎(kōsoku): restriction, restraint
• 装束 (しょうぞく) ‎(shōzoku): costume, attire
• 束帯 (そくたい) ‎(sokutai): old ceremonial court dress
• 束 (そく)に立 (た)つ ‎(soku ni tatsu)
• 束縛 (そくばく) ‎(sokubaku): restraint, shackles
• 束髪 (そくはつ) ‎(sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
• 電束 (でんそく) ‎(densoku): electric flux
• 波束 (はそく) ‎(hasoku): wave packet
• 約束 (やくそく) ‎(yakusoku): arrangement, convention

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
束
たば Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

Alternative forms

• 把

Counter

束 ‎(hiragana たば, romaji -taba)

1. counter for bundles

   それは一束十円 (ひとたばじゅうえん)の値段 (ねだん)でした

   sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita

   They cost 10 yen a bundle

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana たば, romaji taba)

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼 (かれ)は古 (ふる)い手紙 (てがみ)を束 (たば)にした

   kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita

   He bound old letters into a bundle

Derived terms

• 札束 (さつたば) ‎(satsutaba): wad of bills
• 束 (たば)になって掛 (か)かる ‎(taba ni natte kakaru): attack all in a bunch
• 束 (たば)ねる ‎(tabaneru): tie up in a bundle
• 花束 (はなたば) ‎(hanataba): bunch of flowers

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
束
つか Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) つか​ [tsùkáꜜ] (Odaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɯ̥ᵝka̠]

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana つか, romaji tsuka)

1. handbreadth, bundle

Derived terms

• 束 (つか)の間 (ま) ‎(tsukanoma): brief space of time

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
束
そく Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) そ​く [sóꜜkù] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [so̞kɯᵝ]

Counter

束 ‎(hiragana そく, romaji -soku)

1. large bundles

Noun

束 ‎(hiragana そく, romaji soku)

1. (mathematics) lattice

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Korean

Hanja

束 • ‎(sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune-Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

束 (thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc)

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