瘳

瘳 U+7633, 瘳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7633 ← 瘲 [U+7632] CJK Unified Ideographs 瘴 → [U+7634]

Translingual

Han character

瘳 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 大尸一竹 (KSMH), four-corner 0012₂, composition ⿸疒翏)

1. illness
2. recover
3. lose

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 779, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22453
• Dae Jaweon: page 1189, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2695, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7633

Chinese

trad.		瘳
simp. #		瘳

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): chōu (chou¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chou
    • Wade–Giles: chʻou¹
    • Yale: chōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chou
    • Palladius: чоу (čou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: cau¹
    • Yale: chāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ceo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: trhjuw

Rime
Character	瘳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	徹 (10)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丑鳩切
Baxter	trhjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈʰɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʰiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶʰiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈʰuw/
Li Rong	/ȶʰiu/
Wang Li	/ȶʰĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȶʰi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cau1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*r̥iw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*r̥ʰɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瘳
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chōu
Middle Chinese	‹ trhjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*r̥iw/
English	recover
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	瘳
Reading #	1/1
No.	8386
Phonetic component	翏
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	抽
Old Chinese	/*r̥ʰɯw/

Definitions

瘳

1. (literary) to recover from illness; to be healed

Compounds

• 厥疾勿瘳
• 夷瘳

Japanese

Kanji

瘳

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to be healed
2. to reform

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちゅう (chū)、ちゅ (chu)、りょう (ryō)
• Kun: いえる (ieru)

Korean

Hanja

瘳 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

1. to recover
2. be better
3. to reduce