跔

跔 U+8DD4, 跔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DD4 ← 跓 [U+8DD3] CJK Unified Ideographs 跕 → [U+8DD5]

Translingual

Han character

跔 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口一心口 (RMPR), composition ⿰𧾷句)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1223, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37466
• Dae Jaweon: page 1695, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3697, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8DD4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		跔
alternative forms		㣘

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
勾	*koː, *koːs
鉤	*koː
鴝	*koː, *ɡo
句	*koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo
夠	*koː, *koːs, *kʰoː
枸	*koː, *koːʔ, *koʔ
軥	*koː, *koːs, *ɡo
狗	*koːʔ
苟	*koːʔ
岣	*koːʔ, *ko
笱	*koːʔ
玽	*koːʔ
耇	*koːʔ
豿	*koːʔ, *qʰroːɡ
敂	*koːʔ
怐	*koːs, *kʰoːs, *qʰoːs, *kos
雊	*koːs
竘	*kʰoːʔ, *kʰoʔ
齁	*qʰoː
呴	*qʰoːʔ, *qʰos
蚼	*qʰoːʔ, *ɡo
豞	*qʰoːs
訽	*qʰoːs, *ɡoːs
佝	*qʰoːs
拘	*ko
駒	*ko
眗	*ko
跔	*ko
鮈	*ko
痀	*ko
蒟	*koʔ, *kos
絇	*kos, *ɡo
邭	*kos
劬	*ɡo
朐	*ɡo
鼩	*ɡo
斪	*ɡo
翑	*ɡo
葋	*ɡo
姁	*ɡo, *qʰo, *qʰoʔ, *qʰos
欨	*qʰo, *qʰoʔ
喣	*qʰoʔ
煦	*qʰoʔ, *qʰos
昫	*qʰos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ko) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 句 (OC *koː, *koːs, *kos, *ɡo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jū (ju¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ku

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyu
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi¹
    • Yale: kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ku
    • Tâi-lô: ku
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ku³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ku⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ku⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ku⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kju

Rime
Character	跔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	舉朱切
Baxter	kju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/kio/
Shao Rongfen	/kio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuə̆/
Li Rong	/kio/
Wang Li	/kĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ko/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	跔
Reading #	1/1
No.	7097
Phonetic component	句
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拘
Old Chinese	/*ko/

Definitions

跔

1. ^† (of the legs and feet) to twitch because of the cold
2. (Hokkien) to bend down; to squat
3. (Hokkien) to stay

References

• “Entry #9128”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Japanese

Kanji

跔

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: かがむ (kagamu)