箸

See also: 筷

Translingual

Han character

箸 (radical 118 竹+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹十大日 (HJKA), four-corner 8860₄, composition ⿱⺮者)

References

• KangXi: page 891, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26224
• Dae Jaweon: page 1318, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 2979, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7BB8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		箸

Etymology 1

The Classical Chinese word for "chopsticks". It has been replaced by 筷子 (kuàizi) in most dialects for taboo reasons, avoiding homophony with 住 (zhù, “stopping”) in boatmen's language. Still used in Min, and dialectal Mandarin/Wu/Cantonese/Hakka.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu⁶
• Min Dong (BUC): dê̤ṳ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tī / tū

  (Teochew, Peng'im): de⁷

• Wu (Wiktionary): zr (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu⁶
    • Yale: jyuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyː²²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dê̤ṳ
    • IPA ^(key): /tøy²⁴²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tī / tū
    • Tâi-lô: tī / tū
    • Phofsit Daibuun: di, du
    • IPA (Taipei): /ti³³/, /tu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ti²²/, /tu²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: de⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tṳ̄
    • IPA ^(key): /tɯ¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: zr (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /z̻z̩²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɖɨʌ^H/▼

Rime
Character	箸
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	遟倨切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/ȡiɔH/
Wang Li	/ȡĭoH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[d]<r>ak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*das/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	箸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhù
Middle Chinese	‹ drjoH ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]<r>ak-s/
English	chopsticks
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	箸
Reading #	2/2
No.	16999
Phonetic component	者
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	箸
Old Chinese	/*das/

Definitions

箸

1. (literary, regional) chopsticks   (Classifier: 雙／双; 奇 md; 跤 mn)

   • 紂王有一日得著一雙象牙ê箸，伊ê人臣箕子看了不止憂悶驚惶。 [Min Nan, trad.]

     纣王有一日得著一双象牙ê箸，伊ê人臣箕子看了不止忧闷惊惶。 [Min Nan, simp.]

     From: 1916: anon., Tùi小可會知大項

     Tiū-ông ū chi̍t ji̍t tit-tio̍h chi̍t siang chhiūⁿ-gê ê tī, i ê jîn-sîn Kî Chú khòaⁿ-liáu put-chí iu-būn kiaⁿ-hiâⁿ. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     One day, King Zhou got a pair of ivory chopsticks. His official Jizi saw that and became incessantly worried and frightened.

2. (Min) chopstick-shaped object

   冰箸 [Min Dong]  ―  bĭng-{d}ê̤ṳ / [piŋ⁵⁵⁻⁵³ tøy²⁴²] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  ice lolly

3. (Cantonese, Min, dialectal Mandarin) Classifier for an amount of food held with a pair of chopsticks.

   我夾箸麵畀你試下吖。 [Cantonese, trad.]

   我夹箸面畀你试下吖。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Ngo⁵ gaap³ zyu⁶ min⁶ bei² nei⁵ si³ haa⁵ aa¹. [Jyutping]

   I'll get a "chopstick-ful" of noodles for you to try.

Descendants

• Burmese: တူ ‎(tu, “chopsticks”) (from Min Nan)
• Korean: 저 (箸, jeo) > 젓가락 (jeotgarak, “chopsticks”)
• Lao: ຖູ່ ‎(thū) > ໄມ້ຖູ່ ‎(mai thū, “chopsticks”)
• Lü: ᦏᦴᧈ ‎(tʰuu²) > ᦙᦺᧉᦏᦴᧈ ‎(maj⁶tʰuu², “chopsticks”)
• Vietnamese: đũa

Compounds

• 借箸
• 冰箸
• 動箸／动箸
• 攑箸
• 火箸
• 碗箸
• 箸仔

• 箸子 (zhùzi)
• 箸瓶
• 箸筒
• 箸筩
• 箸簍／箸篓
• 箸籠／箸笼 (zhùlóng)

• 箸豆
• 箸長碗短／箸长碗短
• 箸隻／箸只
• 箸雙／箸双
• 象箸 (xiàngzhù)
• 象箸玉杯

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 箸 – see 著. (This character, 箸, is a variant form of 著.)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
箸
はし Grade: S
kun'yomi

Kanji

箸

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: じょ (jo), じゃく (jaku)
• Kan’on: ちょ (cho), ちゃく (chaku)
• Kun: はし (hashi)

Compounds

• 菜箸 (さいばし) ‎(saibashi)
• 割 (わ)り箸 (ばし) ‎(waribashi)
• 箸置 (はしお)き ‎(hashioki): chopstick rest

Etymology

Kanji in this term
箸
はし Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) は​し [háꜜshì] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕi]

Noun

箸 ‎(hiragana はし, romaji hashi)

1. chopsticks

See also

• おてもと, お手許, お手元, 御手許, 御手元 (otemoto)

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Korean

Hanja

箸 • ‎(jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune-Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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Vietnamese

Han character

箸 (giạ, trứ, chước, đũa, trợ)

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References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999