筑

See also: 築

Translingual

simpl.		筑
trad.		筑築

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 竹 (“bamboo”) + 巩 (“work”) – building by working with bamboo.

Also from Simplified from 築 (木 → [[ ]]) (by elimination of 木).

Han character

筑 (radical 118 竹+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹一竹弓 (HMHN), four-corner 8811₇)

1. an ancient zither
2. build

Derived characters

• 築

References

• KangXi: page 883, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26002
• Dae Jaweon: page 1312, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2963, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7B51

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Cantonese

Hanzi

筑 (Jyutping zuk1, Yale juk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

筑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ちく (chiku)
• Kun: ひろう (hirou)

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Korean

Hanja

筑 (chuk) (hangeul 축, revised chuk, McCune-Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

There are two words of similar sound but different tone written with this graph. 筑 (Pinyin zhú (zhu2), Wade-Giles chu²)

筑 (Pinyin zhù (zhu4), Wade-Giles chu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

筑 (trúc)