踽

踽 U+8E3D, 踽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E3D ← 踼 [U+8E3C] CJK Unified Ideographs 踾 → [U+8E3E]

Translingual

Han character

踽 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口一竹中月 (RMHLB), four-corner 6212₇, composition ⿰𧾷禹)

1. to walk alone
2. self-reliant

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1230, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37713
• Dae Jaweon: page 1702, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3724, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8E3D

Chinese

trad.		踽
simp. #		踽

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
踽	*kʷaʔ, *kʰʷaʔ
萭	*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
聥	*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
楀	*kʷaʔ, *ɢʷaʔ
齲	*kʰʷaʔ
禹	*ɢʷaʔ
瑀	*ɢʷaʔ
鄅	*ɢʷaʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʷaʔ, *kʰʷaʔ): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 禹 (OC *ɢʷaʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǔ (ju³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi²
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gy³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chü³
    • Yale: jyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: geoi²
    • Yale: géui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯³⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gy³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gṳ̂
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ky⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gy³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ky³³²/

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• Middle Chinese: khjuX, kjuX

Rime
Character	踽	踽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	驅雨切	俱雨切
Baxter	khjuX	kjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰɨoX/	/kɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰioX/	/kioX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰioX/	/kioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰuə̆X/	/kuə̆X/
Li Rong	/kʰioX/	/kioX/
Wang Li	/kʰĭuX/	/kĭuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰi̯uX/	/ki̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qǔ	jǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	heoi2	geoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷaʔ/, /*kʰʷaʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	踽	踽
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15954	15959
Phonetic component	禹	禹
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	矩	齲
Old Chinese	/*kʷaʔ/	/*kʰʷaʔ/

Definitions

踽

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Compounds

• 踽僂 / 踽偻
• 踽踽 (jǔjǔ)
• 踽踽涼涼 / 踽踽凉凉
• 踽踽獨行 / 踽踽独行 (jǔjǔdúxíng)
• 踽踽而行

References

• “踽”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “踽”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 116.

Japanese

Kanji

踽

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to walk alone
2. self-reliant

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)

Korean

Hanja

踽 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)

1. to walk alone
2. self-reliant