究

Character	究 U+7A76, 究
Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A76
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
← 穵 [U+7A75] [U+7A77] 穷 →

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kus): semantic 穴 ‎(“cave”) + phonetic 九 ‎(OC *kuʔ)

Han character

究 (radical 116 穴+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 十金大弓 (JCKN), four-corner 3041₇, composition ⿱穴九)

1. examine, investigate

References

• KangXi: page 862, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25409
• Dae Jaweon: page 1289, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2718, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7A76

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		究

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū, jiù

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ, ㄐㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Wade-Giles: chiu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chiu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiow
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau³
    • Yale: gau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨu^H/▼

Rime
Character	究
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居祐切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/kiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuwH/
Li Rong	/kiuH/
Wang Li	/kĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k](r)u(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kus/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	究
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiū
Middle Chinese	‹ kjuwH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k](r)u(ʔ)-s/
English	scrutinize; go to the end
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	究
Reading #	1/1
No.	6942
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	救
Old Chinese	/*kus/

Definitions

究

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Japanese

Kanji

究

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. research

Readings

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: きわめる (kiwameru), きわまる (kiwamaru)

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Korean

Hanja

究 • ‎(gu)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 구 (revised: gu, McCune-Reischauer: ku, Yale: kwu)

• Name (hangeul): 연구할 구()

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Vietnamese

Han character

究 (cứu)

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