稠

稠 U+7A20, 稠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A20 ← 稟 [U+7A1F] CJK Unified Ideographs 稡 → [U+7A21]

Translingual

Han character

稠 (radical 115 禾+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月土口 (HDBGR), four-corner 2792₀, composition ⿰禾周)

References

• KangXi: page 855, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25130
• Dae Jaweon: page 1280, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2614, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7A20

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		稠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (周) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
裯	*tuːw, *dɯw, *do
啁	*tuːw, *rtɯːw, *tɯw
禂	*tuːwʔ
綢	*tʰuːw, *dɯw
翢	*tʰuːw, *duːw
錭	*duːw
雕	*tɯːw
凋	*tɯːw
琱	*tɯːw
鯛	*tɯːw
鵰	*tɯːw
彫	*tɯːw
奝	*tɯːw
調	*dɯːw, *dɯːws, *tɯw
蜩	*dɯːw
惆	*tʰɯw
婤	*tʰɯw, *tjɯw
稠	*dɯw
椆	*dɯw, *tjɯws
周	*tjɯw
輖	*tjɯw
賙	*tjɯw
郮	*tjɯw
晭	*tjɯwʔ
倜	*tʰɯːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóu (chou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): tiû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄡˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ou²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chour
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cau⁴
    • Yale: chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiû
    • Tâi-lô: tiû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: diuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖɨu/▼

Rime
Character	稠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直由切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖuw/
Li Rong	/ȡiu/
Wang Li	/ȡĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chóu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]riw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*dɯw/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	稠
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chóu
Middle Chinese	‹ drjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]riw/
English	dense, thick
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	稠
Reading #	1/1
No.	17528
Phonetic component	周
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	儔
Old Chinese	/*dɯw/

Definitions

稠

1. dense
2. thick; viscous

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 稠 (“thick; viscous”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		稠
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		稠
Mandarin	Beijing	稠
Cantonese	Guangzhou	杰
	Hong Kong	杰
Min Nan	Xiamen	洘
	Taipei	洘

Compounds

• 人煙稠密／人烟稠密
• 人稠物穰
• 地廣人稠／地广人稠
• 密密稠稠
• 密稠
• 星稠
• 沸稠
• 稀稠
• 稠人 (chóurén)
• 稠人廣坐／稠人广坐 (chóurén guǎngzuò)
• 稠人廣眾／稠人广众
• 稠呼呼
• 稠咕嘟
• 稠夥／稠伙
• 稠密 (chóumì)

• 稠庶
• 稠心眼兒／稠心眼儿
• 稠掩掩
• 稠木
• 稠林
• 稠沓
• 稠涎
• 稠濁／稠浊
• 稠濃／稠浓
• 稠疊／稠叠
• 稠直
• 稠眾／稠众
• 稠穊
• 稠穰
• 稠糊

• 稠綴／稠缀
• 稠緊緊／稠紧紧
• 稠縟／稠缛
• 稠膏蕈
• 稠適／稠适
• 稠雜／稠杂
• 稠雲／稠云
• 稠餳／稠饧
• 稠鬧／稠闹
• 稠黏
• 粘稠
• 繁稠
• 造畜稠棧／造畜稠栈
• 黏稠

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Japanese

Kanji

稠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: じゅう (jū)
• Kan’on: ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru); おおい (ooi, 稠い)

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Korean

Hanja

稠 • (jo, ju) (hangeul 조, 주, revised jo, ju, McCune-Reischauer cho, chu, Yale co, cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: trù

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