束

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 速

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		束

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 束
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
涑	*sloː, *sloːɡ, *sloɡ
鏉	*sloː, *sloːɡs, *srus
摗	*sloː
駷	*sloːʔ, *sloŋʔ
嗽	*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ, *sloːɡ
瘶	*sloːɡs
欶	*sloːɡs, *sroːɡ
漱	*sloːɡs, *srus
捒	*sreːɡ, *sroɡs, *sroɡs
悚	*sloŋʔ
竦	*sloŋʔ
娕	*sʰroːɡ
梀	*sreːɡ, *sʰloːɡ, *sloːɡ, *l̥ʰoɡ
速	*sloːɡ
餗	*sloːɡ
殐	*sloːɡ
遬	*sloːɡ
蔌	*sloːɡ
樕	*sloːɡ
藗	*sloːɡ
誎	*sʰloɡ
束	*hljoɡ

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shù (shu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨˋ

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

  (Hokkien, POJ): sok

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sog⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shù
    • Wade–Giles: shu⁴
    • Yale: shù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuh
    • Palladius: шу (šu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cuk¹
    • Yale: chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: cug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: suk / sok
    • Hakka Romanization System: sug` / sog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: sug⁵ / sog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /suk̚²/, /sok̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sok
    • Tâi-lô: sok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔk̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sog⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sok
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sok̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: syowk

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
Baxter	syowk
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk1

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 束

1. to bind; to tie up
   • 束縛／束缚  ―  shùfù  ―  to bind; to tie up
2. to control; to restrain
   • 拘束  ―  jūshù  ―  restraint; inhibited; constraint
3. end
   • 結束／结束  ―  jiéshù  ―  end
4. bunch; bundle; bale
5. Classifier for objects in bunches or bundles, such as bouquets of flowers.
   • 一束玫瑰  ―  yī shù méiguī  ―  a bouquet of roses
6. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

束

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: たば (taba, 束, Jōyō); たばねる (tabaneru, 束ねる); つか (tsuka, 束); つかねる (tsukaneru, 束ねる)

Compounds

• 結(けっ)束(そく) (kessoku): union, unity
• 拘(こう)束(そく) (kōsoku): restriction, restraint
• 装(しょう)束(ぞく) (shōzoku): costume, attire
• 束(そく)帯(たい) (sokutai): old ceremonial court dress
• 束(そく)に立(た)つ (soku ni tatsu)
• 束(そく)縛(ばく) (sokubaku): restraint, shackles
• 束(そく)髪(はつ) (sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
• 電(でん)束(そく) (densoku): electric flux
• 波(は)束(そく) (hasoku): wave packet
• 約(やく)束(そく) (yakusoku): arrangement, convention

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• 把

Counter

束(たば) • (-taba) 

1. counter for bundles

   それは一(ひと)束(たば)十(じゅう)円(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(たば) • (taba) 

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼(かれ)は古(ふる)い手(て)紙(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(さつ)束(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(はな)束(たば) (hanataba): bunch of flowers

Etymology 2

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

Noun

束(つか) • (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

Counter

束(そく) or 束(counter) • (soku or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|そく]]

1. large bundles

Noun

束(そく) • (soku) 

1. (mathematics, order theory) 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

(deprecated template usage) 束 (thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc)

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