仇

See also: 讐

仇 U+4EC7, 仇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EC7 ← 仆 [U+4EC6] CJK Unified Ideographs 仈 → [U+4EC8]

Translingual

Han character

仇 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人大弓 (OKN), four-corner 2421₇, composition ⿰亻九)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 91, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 355
• Dae Jaweon: page 193, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 109, character 3
• Unihan data for U+4EC7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		仇
alternative forms		讎／雠 “resentment” 㐜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 仇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Small seal script s05887 Transcribed ancient scripts L35394
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡu) : semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ) – spouse.

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 仇

1. hatred; enmity; resentment
2. enemy; foe; adversary

   • 我又要叫你和女人彼此為仇。你的後裔和女人的後裔也彼此為仇。 [MSC, trad.]
     我又要叫你和女人彼此为仇。你的后裔和女人的后裔也彼此为仇。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒ yòu yào jiào nǐ hé nǚrén bǐcǐ wéi chóu. Nǐ de hòuyì hé nǚrén de hòuyì yě bǐcǐ wéi chóu. [Pinyin]

     And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.

3. to make reprisals; to retaliate
4. to proofread; to check against the original

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 仇

1. companion; peer
2. spouse; mate
3. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

仇

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: あだ (ada, 仇)、かたき (kataki, 仇)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
仇
あだ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Noun

仇(あだ) • (ada) 

1. foe, enemy

Etymology 2

Noun

仇(かたき) • (kataki) 

1. Alternative form of 敵

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Korean

Hanja

仇 (eum 구 (gu))

1. enemy
2. hate, hatred
3. enmity

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Vietnamese

Han character

仇: Hán Nôm readings: cừu

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