躕

See also: 蹰

躕 U+8E95, 躕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E95 ← 躔 [U+8E94] CJK Unified Ideographs 躖 → [U+8E96]

Translingual

Han character

躕 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口一戈土戈 (RMIGI), four-corner 6114₀, composition ⿰𧾷廚)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1235, character 43
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37972
• Dae Jaweon: page 1708, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3748, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8E95

Chinese

trad.		躕
simp.		蹰
alternative forms		蹰 𨆼 䟞

Glyph origin

	Old Chinese
壴	*tos
廚	*do
躕	*do
櫥	*do
幮	*do
樹	*djoʔ, *djos
澍	*tjos, *djos
尌	*djos

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *do) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 廚 (OC *do).

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	躕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chú
Middle Chinese	‹ drju ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ro/
English	踟躕 drje.drjo walk hesitatingly
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	躕
Reading #	1/1
No.	17642
Phonetic component	壴
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	廚
Old Chinese	/*do/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chú (chu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu⁴ / cyu¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): cy²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): tû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chú
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu²
    • Yale: chú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chwu
    • Palladius: чу (ču)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: cyu⁴ / cyu¹
    • Yale: chyùh / chyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsy⁴ / tsy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: qu⁴ / qu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyː²¹/, /t͡sʰyː⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cy²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰy¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tû
    • Tâi-lô: tû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: duu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tu²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tu¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tu²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu²³/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ro/

  (Zhengzhang): /*do/

Definitions

躕

1. Used in 踟躕／踟蹰 (chíchú) and 躕躇／蹰躇 (chúchú).

Compounds

• 搔首踟躕 / 搔首踟蹰
• 步踟躕 / 步踟蹰
• 踟躕 / 踟蹰 (chíchú)
• 躊躕 / 踌蹰 (chóuchú)
• 躕躇 / 蹰躇 (chúchú)

 

References

• “躕”, 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), “蹰”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 34.

Japanese

Kanji

躕

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hesitate
2. waver
3. falter

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちゅ (chu)、じゅ (ju)、じゅう (jū)
• Kun: ためらう (tamerau)