髑

Translingual

Han character

髑 (Kangxi radical 188, 骨+13, 23 strokes, cangjie input 月月田中戈 (BBWLI), four-corner 7622₇, composition ⿰骨蜀)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1450, character 57
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45281
• Dae Jaweon: page 1977, character 33
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4420, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9AD1

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Chinese

trad.		髑
simp. #		髑
alternative forms		䫳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 髑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
襡	*toːʔ, *toːɡs, *doːʔ, *doːɡ, *djoɡ
噣	*toːɡs, *tuɡs, *rtoːɡ, *tjoɡ
斣	*toːɡs
歜	*sdoːmʔ, *tʰjoɡ
斀	*rtoːɡ
孎	*rtoːɡ, *toɡ
濁	*rdoːɡ
鐲	*rdoːɡ, *zroːɡ, *djoɡ
鸀	*rdoːɡ, *tjoɡ
擉	*sʰroːɡ
獨	*doːɡ
髑	*doːɡ
韣	*doːɡ, *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
斸	*toɡ
钃	*toɡ
欘	*toɡ
躅	*doɡ
蠋	*doɡ, *tjoɡ
燭	*tjoɡ
囑	*tjoɡ
矚	*tjoɡ
屬	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
属	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
蠾	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
觸	*tʰjoɡ
臅	*tʰjoɡ
觕	*sʰlaː, *zlaːʔ, *tʰjoɡ
蜀	*djoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *doːɡ) : semantic 骨 (“bone”) + phonetic 蜀 (OC *djoɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: duwk

Rime
Character	髑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒谷切
Baxter	duwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/duk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/duk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwk̚/
Li Rong	/duk̚/
Wang Li	/duk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*doːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	髑
Reading #	1/1
No.	11819
Phonetic component	蜀
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獨
Old Chinese	/*doːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 髑

1. Only used in 髑髏／髑髅 (dúlóu, “skull”); also used as its short form.

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Japanese

Kanji

髑

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: どく (doku)
• Kan-on: とく (toku)

Compounds

• 髑髏(どくろ) (dokuro)

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Korean

Hanja

髑 • (chok) (hangeul 촉, revised chok, McCune–Reischauer ch'ok, Yale chok)

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