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U+6D32, 洲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D32

[U+6D31]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6D33]

Translingual

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Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 85, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中中 (EILL), four-corner 32100, composition )

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 622, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17413
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1616, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6D32

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *tju) : semantic (water) + phonetic (OC *tju).

Etymology

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Unknown.

According to the Erya and the Shiming, the following characters show some notable semantic relations (Schuessler, 2007)

(OC *tjaʔ, “islet”) is smaller than (OC *tju)
(OC *kjɯʔ, “islet”) is smaller than (OC *tjaʔ)
(OC *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil, “islet”) is smaller than (OC *kjɯʔ)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuw/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zau1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*tu/
English islet

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. 17492
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tju/

Definitions

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  1. islet in a river
      ―  shāzhōu  ―  sandbank
  2. continent
      ―  zhōu  ―  Asia
  3. a surname: Zhou

Synonyms

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  • (continent): 大洲 (dàzhōu)

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. continent

Readings

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  • Go-on: (su)
  • Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
  • Kun: しま (shima, )

Compounds

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Usage notes

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In modern Japanese, is mostly replaced by , due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

Definitions

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Kanji in this term
しゅう
Jinmeiyō
kan'on
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
しゅう3
[suffix] continent
[suffix] used in place names
(This term, , is an alternative spelling (dated) of the above term.)

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC tsyuw). Recorded as Middle Korean (cyu) (Yale: cyu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 물가 (mulga ju))

  1. hanja form? of (continent)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: chao, châu

  1. shake; float
  2. continent

References

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  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville
  • L.m. An-tôn Trần Văn Kiệm: Giúp Đọc Nôm Và Hán Việt, NXB Đà Nẵng, 2004