醜

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See also: 丑
醜 U+919C, 醜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-919C
← 醛
[U+919B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 醝 →
[U+919D]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

醜 (radical 164, 酉+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹山戈 (MWHUI), four-corner 16613, composition ⿰酉鬼)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1286, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39969
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1786, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3590, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+919C

Chinese[edit]

trad. 醜
simp. 丑*

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (酉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楢 *kʰjuʔ, *lu
逎 *ʔslu
遒 *sklu, *sɡlu
蝤 *sklu, *sɡlu
揂 *sklu
酒 *ʔsluʔ
媨 *sklus
鞧 *skʰlu
緧 *skʰlu
趥 *skʰlu, *skʰluŋs
酋 *sɡlu
崷 *sɡlu
鰌 *sɡlu
煪 *sɡlu
醜 *l̥ʰjuʔ
猶 *klus, *lu, *lus
猷 *lu
輶 *lu, *luʔ, *lus
偤 *lu
莤 *lu, *sruɡ
蕕 *lu
庮 *lu, *luʔ
槱 *luʔ, *lus
梄 *luʔ
丣 *luʔ
酉 *luʔ

Pronunciation[edit]

Note: thiú/thiúⁿ - originally 丑, most likely from the influence of the simplified character.
Rime
Character 醜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 昌九切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕʰɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕʰiuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕʰiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cʰuwX/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕʰiuX/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕʰĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕʰi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chǒu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 醜 醜
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chǒu chǒu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyhuwX › ‹ tsyhuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*t.qʰuʔ/ /*t.qʰuʔ/
English ugly; evil category

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 醜
Reading # 1/1
No. 15565
Phonetic
component 		酉
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		醜
Old
Chinese 		/*l̥ʰjuʔ/

Definitions[edit]

醜

  1. ugly; homely; hideous
  2. shameful; disgraceful

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 醜 (“ugly”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 醜, 媸
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 醜陋
Mandarin Beijing 難看, 寒磣, 磣
Taiwan 難看, 醜
Jinan 難看, 醜
Xi'an 難看, 醜, 不心疼
Wuhan 醜, 不好看
Chengdu 難看, 醜
Yangzhou 難看, 醜
Hefei 難看, 醜, 相壞
Cantonese Guangzhou 難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
Hong Kong 難睇, 醜, 醜怪, 樣衰, 醜樣, 肉酸, 核突
Yangjiang 惡看, 醜鬼
Gan Nanchang 不客氣, 難看
Hakka Meixian 難看, 難睞, 醜
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 媸, 醜
Liudui (S. Sixian) 媸, 醜
Hsinchu (Hailu) 媸, 醜
Dongshi (Dabu) 媸, 醜
Hsinchu (Raoping) 媸, 醜
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 䆀
Jin Taiyuan 難看, 醜
Min Bei Jian'ou 驚人, 毛格式, 生得呆
Min Dong Fuzhou 驚儂, 驚, 伓好看, 生得呆
Min Nan Xiamen 歹看, 㾀勢
Quanzhou 歹看, 㾀勢
Zhangzhou 䆀看, 㾀勢
Taipei 歹看, 䆀, 䆀才, 㾀, 䆀猴, 㾀勢
Kaohsiung 歹看
Philippines (Manila) 歹看, 㾀勢
Chaozhou 孬睇, 野樣, 䆀
Wu Suzhou 難看, 怕
Wenzhou 難覷, 否好覷, 醜
Xiang Changsha 醜, 不好看
Shuangfeng 醜, 不好看

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

醜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. ugly
  2. shameful, disgraceful

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms

Noun[edit]

醜 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji shū)

  1. ugliness

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

醜 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

  1. ugly looking, homely
  2. disgraceful

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

醜 (xấu, xổ, xú, xũ, sú)

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