疽

疽 U+75BD, 疽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75BD ← 疼 [U+75BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 疾 → [U+75BE]

Translingual

Han character

疽 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 大月一 (KBM), four-corner 0011₇, composition ⿸疒且)

1. ulcer, carbuncle, abscess

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 771, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22106
• Dae Jaweon: page 1181, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2666, character 2
• Unihan data for U+75BD

Chinese

simp. and trad.		疽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疽
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
虘	*zaːl, *zaː
蔖	*zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ
摣	*rnaː, *ʔsraː
袓	*ʔsjaː, *zaʔ
怚	*ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ
罝	*ʔsjaː
謯	*ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ
姐	*ʔsjaːʔ
抯	*ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː
飷	*ʔsjaːʔ
且	*sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa
趄	*sʰjaːs, *sʰa
笡	*sʰjaːs
查	*ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː
柤	*ʔsraː
樝	*ʔsraː
皻	*ʔsraː
渣	*ʔsraː
楂	*zraː
苴	*zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa
駔	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ
租	*ʔsaː
蒩	*ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa
祖	*ʔsaːʔ
組	*ʔsaːʔ
珇	*ʔsaːʔ
靻	*ʔsaːʔ
粗	*sʰaː, *zaːʔ
徂	*zaː
殂	*zaː
麆	*zaːʔ, *zras
伹	*zaːʔ, *sʰa
蛆	*ʔsa, *sʰa
沮	*ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra
咀	*ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ
疽	*sʰa
雎	*sʰa
狙	*sʰa, *sʰas
岨	*sʰa
砠	*sʰa
坥	*sʰa, *sʰas
刞	*sʰas
覰	*sʰas
覷	*sʰas
跙	*zaʔ
筯	*das
菹	*ʔsra
葅	*ʔsra
阻	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
俎	*ʔsraʔ
詛	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
鉏	*zra, *zraʔ
豠	*zra
鋤	*zra
耡	*zra, *zras
齟	*zraʔ
助	*zras

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰa) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jū (ju¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi¹, ceoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyu
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeoi¹, ceoi¹
    • Yale: jēui, chēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey¹, tsoey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu¹, cêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰɵy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tshjo

Rime
Character	疽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七余切
Baxter	tshjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɨə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰa/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	疽
Reading #	1/1
No.	10421
Phonetic component	且
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	疽
Old Chinese	/*sʰa/

Definitions

疽

1. (traditional Chinese medicine) ulcer; carbuncle; abscess

Compounds

• 串疽
• 吮疽
• 壞疽／坏疽 (huàijū)
• 夭疽
• 決癰潰疽／决痈溃疽
• 炭疽 (tànjū)
• 瘭疽 (biāojū)
• 癰疽／痈疽 (yōngjū)
• 馬鼻疽／马鼻疽

 

References

• “疽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

疽

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そ (so)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: かさ (kasa, 疽)

Compounds

• 壊疽(えそ) (eso): gangrene

Korean

Hanja

疽 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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