拙

拙

拙 U+62D9, 拙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62D9 ← 拘 [U+62D8] CJK Unified Ideographs 拚 → [U+62DA]

Translingual

Han character

拙 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手山山 (QUU), four-corner 5207₂, composition ⿰扌出)

References

• KangXi: page 426, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11965
• Dae Jaweon: page 775, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1860, character 3
• Unihan data for U+62D9

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		拙

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
聉	*r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅	*kljods
祟	*sqʰluds
出	*kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁	*ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪	*qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀	*ŋr'uːd
袦	*ŋr'oːd
咄	*ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮	*sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙	*kljod
炪	*kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘	*ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯	*l'uːd
啒	*kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈	*kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟	*kʰluːd
泏	*kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀	*kʰluːd, *ɡlud
胐	*kʰluːd
窋	*ʔl'ud
絀	*ʔl'ud
黜	*l̥ʰud
屈	*klud, *kʰlud
趉	*klud
鶌	*klud
詘	*kʰlud
倔	*ɡlud
崛	*ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kljod) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuō, zhuó

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛ, ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³, zyut⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chot
• Min Nan (POJ): choah / choat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuō
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuo
    • Wade–Giles: cho¹
    • Yale: jwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɔ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyut³, zyut⁶
    • Yale: jyut, jyuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸, dzyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³, jud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyːt̚³/, /t͡ʃyːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chot
    • Hakka Romanization System: zod`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zod⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sot̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choah
    • Tâi-lô: tsuah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoaq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡suaʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: choat
    • Tâi-lô: tsuat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zoad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡suat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡suat̚³²/

Note:

• choah - vernacular;
• choat - literary.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 拙
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂuo⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/ /t͡suo²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂuo²¹/ /t͡suo²¹/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂuə²¹³/
	Qingdao	/tʃuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
	Xi'an	/p͡fo²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂuɛ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fə³¹/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂuɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕye²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡sue³¹/ /t͡sʰo³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡sʰo²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂueʔ⁵/ /t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suaʔ²/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/t͡suaʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡soʔ⁵/ /t͡səʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡səʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡sɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕye²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sot̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʃot̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡syt̚³/
	Nanning	/t͡syt̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/t͡syt̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡suat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡suɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡sɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡suak̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/tuak̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕiuᴇt̚/

Rime
Character	拙
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	仙 (82)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職悅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwiat̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t]ot/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kljod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拙
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuō
Middle Chinese	‹ tsywet ›
Old Chinese	/*[t]ot/
English	stupid, inept
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	拙
Reading #	1/1
No.	1557
Phonetic component	出
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	拙
Old Chinese	/*kljod/

Definitions

拙

1. stupid; clumsy
2. (self-deprecatory)my

Synonyms

• (stupid):

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Synonyms of 拙

呆 (dāi) 呆傻 (dāishǎ) 呆痴 (dāichī) 愚昧 (yúmèi) 愚笨 (yúbèn) 愚蠢 (yúchǔn) 拙笨 (zhuōbèn) 暗昧 (ànmèi) 棒槌 (bàngchuí) 痴呆 (chīdāi)

笨 (bèn) 笨拙 (bènzhuō) 臭笨 (Min Nan) 袋屎 (Min Nan) 袋屎袋尿 (Min Nan) 阿西 (Min Nan) 𡳞面 (Min Nan, vulgar) 愚戇／愚戆 (Min Nan) 愚鈍／愚钝 (yúdùn) 撚樣／撚样 (Cantonese, vulgar)

海鱟／海鲎 (Min Nan) 混鈍／混钝 (Min Nan) 發踱／发踱 (Wu) 笨車車／笨车车 (Min Nan) 蠢氣／蠢气 (Xiang) 遲鈍／迟钝 (chídùn) 鱟 (Min Nan) 鳩拙／鸠拙 (jiūzhuó) (literary) 𡳞鳥面／𡳞鸟面 (Min Nan, vulgar)

Compounds

口拙 古拙 (gǔzhuó) 大巧若拙 守拙 (shǒuzhuó) 工拙 巧拙 (qiǎozhuó) 弄巧反拙 弄巧成拙 (nòngqiǎochéngzhuō) 心拙口夯 心拙口笨 愚拙 (yúzhuō) 拙作 (zhuōzuò) 拙劣 (zhuōliè) 拙口笨腮 拙夫 拙物 拙病 拙目 拙眼

拙笨 (zhuōbèn) 拙著 (zhuózhù) 犯拙 眼拙 (yǎnzhuō) 稚拙 (zhìzhuō) 笨口拙舌 (bènkǒuzhuōshé) 笨嘴拙腮 笨拙 (bènzhuō) 老拙 (lǎozhuō) 藏拙 (cángzhuó) 蚩拙 (chīzhuō) 迂拙 勤能補拙／勤能补拙 (qínnéngbǔzhuō) 命乖運拙／命乖运拙 將勤補拙／将勤补拙 (jiāngqínbǔzhuō) 心勞日拙／心劳日拙 (xīnláorìzhuō) 才疏計拙／才疏计拙 拙口鈍腮／拙口钝腮 拙口鈍辭／拙口钝辞

拙實／拙实 拙於言辭／拙于言辞 拙樸／拙朴 拙澀／拙涩 拙筆／拙笔 (zhuóbǐ) 拙荊／拙荆 (zhuójīng) 拙見／拙见 (zhuōjiàn) 拙計／拙计 (zhuōjì) 時乖運拙／时乖运拙 樸拙／朴拙 獻拙／献拙 百拙千醜／百拙千丑 計窮途拙／计穷途拙 辭巧理拙／辞巧理拙 運拙時乖／运拙时乖 運拙時艱／运拙时艰 避賢謝拙／避贤谢拙 養拙／养拙 鳩拙／鸠拙 (jiūzhuó)

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Japanese

Kanji

拙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: つたない (tsutanai, 拙い, Jōyō); まずい (mazui, 拙い)

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Korean

Hanja

拙 • (jol) (hangeul 졸, revised jol, McCune–Reischauer chol, Yale col)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拙: Hán Việt readings: chuyết
拙: Nôm readings: chút, choắt, chuyết, sụt, trút, choét, chót, đúc, nhốt, suốt

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