芻

See also: 刍

Translingual

Han character

芻 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 心山心山 (PUPU), four-corner 2742₇, composition ⿱⿹勹屮⿹勹屮)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1021, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30744
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 260, character 1
• Unihan data for U+82BB

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Chinese

trad.		芻
simp.		刍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 芻
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (芻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
煼	*sʰroːʔ
謅	*sʰroːʔ, *ʔsru, *sʰru
縐	*sʰroːs, *ʔsrus
鄒	*ʔsru
騶	*ʔsru
搊	*ʔsruʔ, *sʰru, *ʔsro
皺	*ʔsrus
篘	*sʰru
㑳	*zrus, *ʔsro, *rnuːb
趍	*sʰlo, *l'al
趨	*sʰlo
芻	*sʰro
犓	*sʰro
雛	*zro
鶵	*zro
媰	*zro
齺	*zroːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chú (chu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): co¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): cho͘ / chho͘ / chhu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu²
    • Yale: chú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
    • Palladius: чу (ču)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: co¹
    • Yale: chō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tso¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: co¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: cho͘
    • Tâi-lô: tsoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zof
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɔ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chho͘
    • Tâi-lô: tshoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhof
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhu
    • Tâi-lô: tshu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰu³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhju

Rime
Character	芻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	測隅切
Baxter	tsrhju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰio/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	co1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ro/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰro/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	芻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chú
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhju ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ro/
English	grass for fuel or fodder
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	芻
Reading #	1/1
No.	1607
Phonetic component	芻
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	芻
Old Chinese	/*sʰro/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 芻

1. mow, cut grass
2. hay, fodder

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Japanese

Kanji

芻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: す (su)
• Kan’yō-on: すう (sū)
• Kun: まぐさ (magusa, 芻)

Compounds

• 烏芻沙摩明王(うすさまみょうおう) (Ususama Myōō)
• 芻蕘(すうじょう) (sūjō), 芻蕘(すうぎょう) (sūgyō)
• 雉兎芻蕘(ちとすうじょう) (chito sūjō)
• 反芻(はんすう) (hansū, “rumination”)
• 反芻胃(はんすうい) (hansūi)
• 反芻症(はんすうしょう) (hansūshō)
• 反芻動物(はんすうどうぶつ) (hansū dōbutsu, “ruminant”)
• 苾芻(びっしゅ) (bisshu, “bhikkhu”)
• 埋芻(まいすう) (maisū, “silage”)

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Korean

Hanja

芻 (eum 추 (chu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

芻: Hán Nôm readings: so

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