樛

樛 U+6A1B, 樛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A1B ← 樚 [U+6A1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 樜 → [U+6A1C]

Translingual

Han character

樛 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 木尸一竹 (DSMH), four-corner 4792₂, composition ⿰木翏)

1. bending branches, bent limbs

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 550, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15445
• Dae Jaweon: page 938, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1285, character 12
• Unihan data for U+6A1B

Chinese

trad.		樛
simp. #		樛

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
醪	*ruːw
嫪	*ruːw, *rɯːws
嘐	*ɡ·ruːw, *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw
賿	*rrɯːw, *rrɯːwʔ
顟	*rrɯːw
膠	*krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw
轇	*krɯːw
摎	*krɯːw, *rɯw
髎	*riw, *rɯːw
熮	*riws, *rɯːw, *rɯwʔ
廖	*rɯːw, *rɯːws, *rɯws
憀	*rɯːw, *rɯw
豂	*rɯːw
漻	*rɯːw
翏	*ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws
寥	*rɯːw, *rɯːwɢ
蓼	*rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ
鄝	*rɯːwʔ
鷚	*mɡlɯw, *rɯwɢs, *mɡrɯw, *ɡrɯw
繆	*mlɯw, *mɡrɯw, *mrɯws, *mlɯwɢ
勠	*rɯw, *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
疁	*rɯw
飂	*rɯw, *rɯws
鏐	*rɯw, *rɯw
僇	*rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
瘳	*r̥ʰɯw
璆	*ɡlɯw, *ɡrɯw
謬	*mrɯws
蟉	*ɡ·rɯw, *ɡrɯw, *ɡrɯwʔ
樛	*krɯw
磟	*ruːwɢ, *rɯwɢ
戮	*rɯwɢ
剹	*rɯwɢ
穋	*rɯwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū (jiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiou
    • Wade–Giles: chiu¹
    • Yale: jyōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • Palladius: цзю (czju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gau¹
    • Yale: gāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khiu
    • Tâi-lô: khiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qiw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰiu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰiu⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kjiw

Rime
Character	樛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	幽 (138)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居虯切
Baxter	kjiw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/kieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjiw/
Li Rong	/kiĕu/
Wang Li	/kiəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*k-riw/, /*k-riw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	樛	樛
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiū	jiū
Middle Chinese	‹ kjiw ›	‹ kjiw ›
Old Chinese	/*k-riw/ (dialect: *k-r- > *kr-)	/*k-riw/ (dialect: > *k-r- > *kr-)
English	down-curving (branch)	twist (v.)
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	樛
Reading #	1/1
No.	8394
Phonetic component	翏
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	樛
Old Chinese	/*krɯw/

Definitions

樛

1. (obsolete, of a branch) downward-curving

   • 南有樛木 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     nán yǒu jiūmù [Pinyin]

     In the south are the trees with drooping branches

2. (obsolete) bent; curved
3. alternative form of 摎 (“to twist; to twine”)
4. a surname

Compounds

• 樛曲
• 樛木
• 樛流
• 樛結 / 樛结

Japanese

Kanji

樛

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bend
2. droop
3. undulate
4. to entwine
5. to be clad in

Readings

• Go-on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: つが (tsuga, 樛)

Korean

Hanja

樛 (eum 규 (gyu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

樛: Hán Nôm readings: cù

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References

• Nom Foundation