讎

See also: 讐, 仇, and 雠

讎 U+8B8E, 讎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B8E ← 讍 [U+8B8D] CJK Unified Ideographs 讏 → [U+8B8F]

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 讐

Han character

讎 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+16, 23 strokes, cangjie input 人土卜口土 (OGYRG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿴雔言 or ⿰隹誰)

1. enemy, rival, opponent

Derived characters

• 𢦄, 𠧐, 㘜, 犫

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1186, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36124
• Dae Jaweon: page 1650, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4112, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8B8E

Chinese

trad.		讎
simp.		雠
alternative forms		讐 仇 resentment 𢢧 𠵁 𢛇

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
犨	*kʰju
犫	*kʰju
雔	*dju
售	*djus
讎	*ɡju

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡju) : phonetic 雔 (OC *dju, “two birds”) + semantic 言 (“argue”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chóu (chou²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sau⁴ / cau⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siû
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶zeu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chóu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chóu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻou²
    • Yale: chóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chour
    • Palladius: чоу (čou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sau⁴ / cau⁴
    • Yale: sàuh / chàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sau⁴ / tsau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: seo⁴ / ceo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐu̯²¹/, /t͡sʰɐu̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
    • Tâi-lô: siû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶zeu
    • MiniDict: zeu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³zeu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /zɤ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyuw

Rime
Character	讎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市流切
Baxter	dzyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiu/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuw/
Li Rong	/ʑiu/
Wang Li	/ʑĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chóu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	讎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chóu
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]u/
English	pay back; enemy
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	讎
Reading #	1/1
No.	1515
Phonetic component	雔
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	讎
Old Chinese	/*ɡju/

Definitions

讎

1. Alternative form of 仇 (“foe; enemy; animosity”)
2. to collate

Compounds

• 公報私讎／公报私雠
• 冤讎／冤雠 (yuānchóu)
• 反目成讎／反目成雠
• 國讎／国雠
• 報讎／报雠 (bàochóu)
• 報讎雪恨／报雠雪恨 (bàochóu xuěhèn)
• 寇讎／寇雠 (kòuchóu)
• 復讎／复雠 (fùchóu)
• 校讎／校雠 (jiàochóu)
• 視如寇讎／视如寇雠
• 讎問／雠问
• 讎夷／雠夷
• 讎怨／雠怨 (chóuyuàn)
• 讎敵／雠敌 (chóudí)
• 讎校／雠校
• 讎隙／雠隙 (chóuxì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

讎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: じゅ (ju)、ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: むくいる (mukuiru, 讎いる)、あだ (ada)

Korean

Hanja

讎 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

讎: Hán Nôm readings: thù, cừ

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