咒

咒

See also: 呪

咒 U+5492, 咒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5492 ← 咑 [U+5491] CJK Unified Ideographs 咓 → [U+5493]

Translingual

Han character

咒 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹弓 (RRHN), four-corner 6621₇, composition ⿱吅几)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3444
• Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 277, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5492

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		咒
alternative forms		呪 祝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
祝	*tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪	*tjus
咒	*tjus
柷	*tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhòu (zhou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau³
• Min Dong (BUC): céu
• Min Nan (POJ): chiù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhòu
    • Wade–Giles: chou⁴
    • Yale: jòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
    • Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau³
    • Yale: jau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: céu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛu²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiù
    • Tâi-lô: tsiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiu²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨu^H/

Rime
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職救切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
No.	17652
Phonetic component	祝
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	呪
Old Chinese	/*tjus/
Notes	同呪

Definitions

咒

1. religious incantation or mantra; spell
2. curse; malediction
3. to curse; to damn

Compounds

咀咒 咒文 (zhòuwén) 咒水 咒詈 咒誓 (zhòushì) 大悲咒 (Dàbēizhòu) 往生咒 (wǎngshēngzhòu) 念咒 (niànzhòu) 普庵咒 牙疼咒 白口咀咒 禁咒

符咒 (fúzhòu) 魔咒 (mózhòu) 咒愿 千咒萬罵／千咒万骂 咒縛／咒缚 咒罵／咒骂 (zhòumà) 咒術／咒术 咒詛／咒诅 (zhòuzǔ) 咒語／咒语 (zhòuyǔ) 咒誦／咒诵 咒讖／咒谶

咒願／咒愿 唸咒／念咒 書符咒水／书符咒水 沒咒念／没咒念 發咒／发咒 經咒／经咒 緊箍咒／紧箍咒 (jǐngūzhòu) 詛咒／诅咒 (zǔzhòu) 譴咒／谴咒 賭咒／赌咒 (dǔzhòu) 賭咒發願／赌咒发愿

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Japanese

Shinjitai	呪
Kyūjitai	咒

Kanji

咒

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

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: まじなう (majinau, 咒う); のろい (noroi, 咒い); のろう (norou, 咒う)

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Korean

Hanja

咒 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咒: Hán Nôm readings: chú

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