軀

See also: 躯

軀 U+8EC0, 軀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8EC0 ← 躿 [U+8EBF] CJK Unified Ideographs 軁 → [U+8EC1]

Translingual

Han character

軀 (Kangxi radical 158, 身+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸口口 (HHSRR), four-corner 2121₆, composition ⿰身區)

Derived characters

• 𨊘

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1238, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38137
• Dae Jaweon: page 1712, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3812, character 22
• Unihan data for U+8EC0

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
摳	*kʰoː, *kʰo
彄	*kʰoː
剾	*kʰoː, *qoː
謳	*qoː
歐	*qoː, *qoːʔ
區	*qoː, *kʰo
鷗	*qoː
甌	*qoː
漚	*qoː, *qoːs
瞘	*qoː
嘔	*qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙	*qoː
膒	*qoː
蓲	*qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧	*qoː, *qas
鏂	*qoː
毆	*qoːʔ
塸	*qoːʔ
貙	*kʰl'o
樞	*kʰjo
驅	*kʰo, *kʰos
軀	*kʰo
嶇	*kʰo
鰸	*kʰo
敺	*kʰo
傴	*qoʔ
嫗	*qos
饇	*qos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰo) : semantic 身 (“body”) + phonetic 區 (OC *qoː, *kʰo)

Etymology 1

trad.		軀
simp.		躯

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kəw (“body; chest; thorax; corpse”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan སྐུ (sku, “body”) and Burmese ကိုယ် (kuiy, “body”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qū (qu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khi
• Northern Min (KCR): kṳ́
• Eastern Min (BUC): kṳ̆
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khu / khi

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ku¹

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): ku¹ / ki¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹chiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü¹
    • Yale: chyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: keoi¹
    • Yale: kēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khi
    • Hakka Romanization System: ki
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ki⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: kṳ́
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰy⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kṳ̆
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰy⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khu
    • Tâi-lô: khu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰu³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khi
    • Tâi-lô: khi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ku¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu³³/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: ku¹ / ki¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰu³⁵/, /kʰi³⁵/

Note:

• ku1 - vernacular;
• ki1 - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹chiu
    • MiniDict: chiu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹qy
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕʰy⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: khju

Rime
Character	軀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	豈俱切
Baxter	khju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰio/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰuə̆/
Li Rong	/kʰio/
Wang Li	/kʰĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	軀
Reading #	1/1
No.	10607
Phonetic component	區
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	區
Old Chinese	/*kʰo/

Definitions

軀

1. human body

Compounds

• 七尺軀／七尺躯
• 全軀／全躯
• 千金軀／千金躯
• 孱軀／孱躯
• 捐軀／捐躯 (juānqū)
• 捐軀報國／捐躯报国
• 捐軀殞首／捐躯殒首
• 捐軀濟難／捐躯济难
• 捐軀疆場／捐躯疆场
• 捐軀赴難／捐躯赴难
• 斷首捐軀／断首捐躯
• 灰軀糜骨／灰躯糜骨
• 為國捐軀／为国捐躯
• 病軀／病躯 (bìngqū)
• 碎首糜軀／碎首糜躯
• 萬金之軀／万金之躯
• 糜軀碎首／糜躯碎首
• 彪軀虎體／彪躯虎体
• 血肉之軀／血肉之躯 (xuèròuzhīqū)
• 賤軀／贱躯
• 身軀／身躯 (shēnqū)
• 軀命／躯命
• 軀幹／躯干 (qūgàn)
• 軀幹骨／躯干骨
• 軀殼／躯壳 (qūqiào)
• 軀老／躯老
• 軀體／躯体 (qūtǐ)
• 頑軀／顽躯

 

Etymology 2

trad.		軀
simp.		躯
alternative forms		襲／袭 套 須／须

Probably the same as etymology 1 (Hsu, 2019). Lin (2007) considers it to be a contraction of 身軀／身躯 (sin-khu).

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): su

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Hsinchu, Lukang, Sanxia, Yilan, Kinmen, Magong)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: su
    • Tâi-lô: su
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Yilan, Kinmen): /su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Lukang): /su³³/

Definitions

軀

1. (Hokkien) body
2. (Hokkien) Classifier for sets of clothing.

   • 挔幾軀你的衫　三兩工洗過曝過閣曝 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     挔几躯你的衫　三两工洗过曝过阁曝 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2021, 蕭煌奇, 送予你的歌

     hiahⁿ kúi su lí ê saⁿ, saⁿ-nn̄g kang sé--kòe pha̍k--kòe koh pha̍k [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

• 合軀／合躯 (Hokkien)
• 圍軀裙／围躯裙 (Hokkien)
• 身軀／身躯 (Hokkien)

 

References

• “Entry #12652”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.
• “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎^[1], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	躯
Kyūjitai	軀

Kanji

軀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 躯)

1. body

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku)
• Kun: からだ (karada, 軀); み (mi, 軀); むくろ (mukuro, 軀); もくろ (mokuro, 軀)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
軀
むくろ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 軀 – see the following entries.

【体】2 [kanji] Grade 2 kanji Kanji reading: たい, てい, からだ, なり, み, みる, もと

【骸】S [kanji] Hyōgaiji kanji [kanji] corpse Kanji reading: げ, かい, がい, むくろ

(This term, 軀, is the kyūjitai of the above terms.)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 軀 (MC khju). Recorded as Middle Korean 구 (kwu) (Yale: kwu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

軀 (eumhun 몸 구 (mom gu))

1. Hanja form^? of 구 (“body”).

Compounds

• 체구 (體軀, chegu)
• 거구 (巨軀, geogu)
• 구간 (軀幹, gugan)

References

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