屨

屨

See also: 屦

屨 U+5C68, 屨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C68 ← 屧 [U+5C67] CJK Unified Ideographs 屩 → [U+5C69]

Translingual

Han character

屨 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹人女 (SHOV), four-corner 7724₇, composition ⿸尸⿰彳婁)

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

References

• KangXi: page 304, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7811
• Dae Jaweon: page 602, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 981, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5C68

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Chinese

trad.		屨
simp.		屦

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
樓	*ɡ·roː
摟	*roː, *ro
耬	*roː
僂	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ
婁	*ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro
螻	*roː
髏	*roː
蔞	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鞻	*roː
艛	*ɡ·roː
膢	*roː, *ro
廔	*roː
嘍	*roː, *roːʔ
瞜	*roː, *ro
簍	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
慺	*roː, *ro, *roʔ
鷜	*roː, *ro
褸	*roː, *roʔ
遱	*roː
謱	*roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ
嶁	*roːʔ, *roʔ
甊	*roːʔ
塿	*roːʔ
漊	*roːʔ, *roʔ
鏤	*roːs, *ro
瘻	*roːs, *ro
擻	*sloːʔ
藪	*sloːʔ
籔	*sloːʔ, *sroʔ
氀	*ro
縷	*roʔ
屢	*ros
數	*sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ
屨	*klos
窶	*ɡloʔ
貗	*ɡloʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jù (ju⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyù
    • Wade–Giles: chü⁴
    • Yale: jyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuh
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: geoi³
    • Yale: geui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨo^H/

Rime
Character	屨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	九遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/kioH/
Shao Rongfen	/kioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuə̆H/
Li Rong	/kioH/
Wang Li	/kĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k-ro-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klos/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jù
Middle Chinese	‹ kjuH ›
Old Chinese	/*k-ro-s/ (dialect: *k-r- > *kr-)
English	sandal, shoe
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	屨
Reading #	1/1
No.	8509
Phonetic component	婁
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	屨
Old Chinese	/*klos/

Definitions

屨

1. shoe footwear
2. to trample on

Compounds

刖足適屨／刖足适屦 刖趾適屨／刖趾适屦 刻足適屨／刻足适屦 削趾適屨／削趾适屦 天冠地屨／天冠地屦 屝屨／屝屦 屨及劍及／屦及剑及 屨校／屦校

屨賤踊貴／屦贱踊贵 截趾適屨／截趾适屦 昭王墜屨／昭王坠屦 杖屨／杖屦 紃屨／𬘓屦 納屨踵決／纳屦踵决 緝屨／缉屦 織席編屨／织席编屦

苞屨／苞屦 菅屨／菅屦 葛屨／葛屦 葛屨履霜／葛屦履霜 踊貴屨賤／踊贵屦贱 遺簪墜屨／遗簪坠屦 麻屨／麻屦

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00776

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Japanese

Kanji

屨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

Readings

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?)

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: く (ku)
• Kun: くつ (kutsu, 屨)^{←くつ (kutu, historical)}

Usage notes

Used in one poem of the Nihon Shoki as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨ku⟩:

• 720, Nihon Shoki (poem 99/102)

  柯羅(から)屨(く)儞嗚(にを)以柯儞輔居等所(いかにふことそ)梅豆羅古枳駄樓(めつらこきたる)武哿左(むかさ)屨(く)樓(る)以祇能和駄唎嗚(いきのわたりを)梅豆羅古枳駄樓(めつらこきたる) [Man'yōgana]

  韓国(からくに)をいかにふことそ目(め)頰(づら)子(こ)来(き)たるむかさくる壱岐(いき)の渡(わた)りを目(め)頰(づら)子(こ)来(き)たる [Modern spelling]

  Karakuni o ika ni fukoto so Mezurako kitaru mukasakuru Iki no watari o Mezurako kitaru

  What has Mezurako come to say about Korea? Why has Mezurako come across the straits of distant Iki?[1]

References

1. Jin'ichi Konishi; Aileen Gatten and Nicholas Teele, translators (2017), Earl Roy Miner, editor, A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 1: The Archaic and Ancient Ages (Volume 4935 of Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 136

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Korean

Hanja

屨 (eum 구 (gu))

1. footwear
2. straw sandals
3. sandal
4. wear
5. often
6. frequently

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Vietnamese

Han character

屨: Hán Nôm readings: lũ

1. straw sandals
2. tread on

References

• Nom Foundation