杵

杵

杵 U+6775, 杵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6775 ← 杴 [U+6774] CJK Unified Ideographs 杶 → [U+6776]

Translingual

Han character

杵 (radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木人十 (DOJ), four-corner 4894₀, composition ⿰木午)

References

• KangXi: page 513, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14503
• Dae Jaweon: page 901, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1170, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6775

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		杵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (午) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
卸	*sŋjaːs
汻	*hŋaːŋʔ
滸	*hŋaːʔ
午	*ŋaːʔ
仵	*ŋaːʔ
旿	*ŋaːʔ
忤	*ŋaːs
迕	*ŋaːs
杵	*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ
籞	*ŋaʔ
蘌	*ŋaʔ
篽	*ŋaʔ
禦	*ŋaʔ, *ŋas
許	*hŋaʔ
御	*ŋas

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chǔ (chu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyu², cyu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: chǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨˇ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'u³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyu², cyu⁵
    • Yale: chyú, chyúh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsy², tsy⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: qu², qu⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyː³⁵/, /t͡ʃʰyː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕʰɨʌ^X/▼

Rime
Character	杵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	昌與切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiɔX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chǔ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*t.qʰaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	杵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhoX ›
Old Chinese	/*t.qʰaʔ/
English	pestle
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	杵
Reading #	1/1
No.	13174
Phonetic component	午
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	杵
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ʰjaʔ/

Definitions

杵

1. pestle
2. baton used to beat clothes
3. (Northeastern Mandarin) to stand (straight like a post)

Compounds

搗衣杵／捣衣杵 杵臼 (chǔjiù) 杵臼交 杵臼關節／杵臼关节

流血漂杵 砧杵 磨杵成針／磨杵成针

血流漂杵 (xuèliúpiāochǔ) 鐵杵磨針／铁杵磨针 黑杵

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Japanese

Kanji

杵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: しょ (sho)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: きね (kine, 杵)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
杵
きね Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) き​ね [kíꜜnè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲine̞]

Noun

杵 (hiragana きね, rōmaji kine)

1. pestle

See also

• 臼 (うす) (usu, “mortar”)

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Korean

Hanja

杵 (eum 저 (jeo))

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Vietnamese

Han character

杵: Hán Nôm readings: ngỏ

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1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN