稠

Translingual

Han character

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

1. dense, crowded, packed
2. soupy, viscous

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóu (chou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • 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
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/

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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

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Compounds

• 人煙稠密／人烟稠密
• 人稠物穰
• 地廣人稠／地广人稠
• 稠人 (chóurén)
• 稠人廣坐／稠人广坐 (chóurén guǎngzuò)

• 稠人廣眾／稠人广众
• 稠密 (chóumì)
• 稠濁／稠浊
• 稠疊／稠叠
• 稠糊

• 稠雲／稠云
• 粘稠
• 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)
• On (unclassified): ちょう (chō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru), おおい (ooi)

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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

稠 (trù)

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