喌

喌 U+558C, 喌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-558C ← 喋 [U+558B] CJK Unified Ideographs 喍 → [U+558D]

Translingual

Han character

喌 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈中中 (RRILL), four-corner 6632₀, composition ⿱吅州)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3918
• Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 655, character 3
• Unihan data for U+558C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		喌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
洲	*tju
州	*tju
喌	*tju, *tjuɡ
酬	*dju
詶	*dju, *djus

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *tju, *tjuɡ): semantic 吅 + phonetic 州 (OC *tju).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	喌	喌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	屋 (4)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職流切	之六切
Baxter	tsyuw	tsyuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨu/	/t͡ɕɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiu/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəu/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuw/	/cuwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiu/	/t͡ɕiuk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəu/	/t͡ɕĭuk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/	/t͡ɕi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhōu	zhu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau1	zuk1

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	喌	喌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	17494	17498
Phonetic component	州	州
Rime group	幽	覺
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	周	粥
Old Chinese	/*tju/	/*tjuɡ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhōu (zhou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau¹ / zuk¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ziu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chû / chu / chiu / chiok

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhou
    • Wade–Giles: chou¹
    • Yale: jōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jou
    • Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau¹ / zuk¹
    • Yale: jāu / jūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau¹ / dzuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo¹ / zug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/, /t͡sʊk̚⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu¹
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ciu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁵⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chû
    • Tâi-lô: tsû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuu
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /t͡su²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiu
    • Tâi-lô: tsiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siu⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɔk̚³²/

Note:

• chû/chu - vernacular;
• chiu, chiok - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuw, tsyuwk

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tju/, /*tjuɡ/

Definitions

喌

1. (onomatopoeia) cluck (sound of calling chicken); tsk

   • 婢又呼雞：「喌，喌，喌，喌，王安石來。」群雞俱至。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     婢又呼鸡：「喌，喌，喌，喌，王安石来。」群鸡俱至。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 1624, Feng Menglong (馮夢龍), Stories to Caution the World (《警世通言》). English translation by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang, 2007.

     Bì yòu hū jī: “Zhōu, zhōu, zhōu, zhōu, Wáng Ānshí lái.” Qún jī jù zhì. [Pinyin]

     Then the maid called out to the chickens, "Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Wang Anshi, come over here!" and the flock of chickens swarmed up to her.

Compounds

• 喌音 (zhōuyīn)
• 雞喌 / 鸡喌
• 雞喌喌 / 鸡喌喌

References

• “喌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “喌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.

Japanese

Kanji

喌

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅく (shuku)、しゅう (shū)

Korean

Hanja

喌 • (ju, juk) (hangeul 주, 죽, revised ju, juk, McCune–Reischauer chu, chuk)

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