茱

茱

茱 U+8331, 茱 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8331 ← 茰 [U+8330] CJK Unified Ideographs 茲 → [U+8332]

Translingual

Han character

茱 (radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹十木 (THJD), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱艹朱)

References

• KangXi: page 1028, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30910
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3204, character 11
• Unihan data for U+8331

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		茱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
咮	*tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株	*to
誅	*to
邾	*to
鼄	*to
跦	*to
袾	*to, *tʰjo
鴸	*to, *tjo
蛛	*to
殊	*to, *djo
趎	*do
珠	*tjo
朱	*tjo
侏	*tjo
絑	*tjo
祩	*tjo, *tjos
鮢	*tjo
硃	*tjo
姝	*tʰjo
銖	*djo
茱	*djo
洙	*djo
陎	*djo

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *djo) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 朱 (OC *tjo).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū (zhu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹, syu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
    • Wade–Giles: chu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu¹, syu⁴
    • Yale: jyū, syùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹, sy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹, xu⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyː⁵⁵/, /ʃyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /d͡ʑɨo/▼

Rime
Character	茱
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市朱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li Rong	/ʑio/
Wang Li	/ʑĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*djo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	茱
Reading #	1/1
No.	17582
Phonetic component	朱
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	殊
Old Chinese	/*djo/

Definitions

茱

1. Short for 茱萸 (zhūyú).

Compounds

吳茱萸／吴茱萸 (wúzhūyú) 山茱萸 (shānzhūyú)

茱萸 (zhūyú) 茱萸會／茱萸会

茱麗葉／茱丽叶 食茱萸

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Japanese

Kanji

茱

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)
• Kun: ぐみ (gumi)

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Korean

Hanja

茱 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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