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U+6236, 戶
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6236

[U+6235]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6237]
U+2F3E, ⼾
KANGXI RADICAL DOOR

[U+2F3D]
Kangxi Radicals ⼿
[U+2F3F]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
Traditional
Shinjitai
Simplified

Alternative forms[edit]

Note the regionally different forms of this character which are encoded separately in Unicode:

  • (top stroke connects to left stroke, as found in the historical Kangxi dictionary) - used in Taiwan and South Korea.
  • (top stroke is a horizontal line that does not connect to other strokes) - used in Japan.
  • (top stroke is a slanting dot) - used in mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Note also the different stroke order: and have the leftmost 丿 as the final (fourth) stroke, while (this character) has 丿 as the second stroke.

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 63, +0, 4 strokes, cangjie input 竹尸 (HS), four-corner 30277, composition 𠂆)

  1. Kangxi radical #63, .
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №437

Derived characters[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 414, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11696
  • Dae Jaweon: page 759, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2257, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6236

Chinese[edit]

trad. /
simp.
alternative forms

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形): one-half of (“gate”).

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-k(w)a-j (mouth; opening; spread; door; face; jaw). Cognate with Tibetan སྒོ (sgo, door).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • fu5 - vernacular;
  • fu4 - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /xu⁵¹/
Harbin /xu⁵³/
Tianjin /xu⁵³/
Jinan /xu²¹/
Qingdao /xu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xu³¹²/
Xi'an /xu⁴⁴/
Xining /xv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /xu¹³/
Lanzhou /xu¹³/
Ürümqi /xu²¹³/
Wuhan /xu³⁵/
Chengdu /fu¹³/
/xu¹³/
Guiyang /fu²¹³/
Kunming /xu²¹²/
Nanjing /xu⁴⁴/
Hefei /xu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /xu⁴⁵/
Pingyao /xu³⁵/
Hohhot /xu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /vu²³/
Suzhou /ɦəu³¹/
Hangzhou /ɦu¹³/
Wenzhou /vu³⁵/
Hui Shexian /xu²²/
Tunxi /xu²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /fu⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ɸu⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /fu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /fu⁵³/
Taoyuan /fu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wu²²/
Nanning /wu²²/
Hong Kong /wu²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /hɔ²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hou²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hou³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hu³³/
/hɔu³³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (33)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter huX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɔX/
Li
Rong
/ɣoX/
Wang
Li
/ɣuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wu6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ huX › ‹ huX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-qˁaʔ/ /*m-qˁaʔ/
English to stop, to check door

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5296
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡʷaːʔ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. door
      ―  wài  ―  outdoors
  2. family; household
      ―    ―  household register
    專業专业  ―  zhuānyè  ―  expert (literally, “family which engages in a specialized trade”)
    釘子钉子  ―  dìngzǐ  ―  nail house
  3. Classifier for households.
  4. (only in compounds) bank account
      ―  zhàng  ―  account
      ―  kāi  ―  to open an account
  5. a surname

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: hộ ()

Others:

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. door

Readings[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

This character lacks JIS support; (U+6238) is used instead.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun 지게문 (jigemun ho))

  1. house
  2. hole

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: hộ

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