逑

逑 U+9011, 逑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9011 ← 逐 [U+9010] CJK Unified Ideographs 递 → [U+9012]

Translingual

Han character

逑 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜戈十水 (YIJE), four-corner 3330₃, composition ⿺辶求)

1. collect, unite
2. match, pair

Derived characters

• 𮈹

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1257, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38878
• Dae Jaweon: page 1743, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3835, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9011

Chinese

trad.		逑
simp. #		逑

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
救	*kus
求	*ɡu
球	*ɡu
逑	*ɡu
賕	*ɡu
蛷	*ɡu
莍	*ɡu
殏	*ɡu
梂	*ɡu
俅	*ɡu
脙	*ɡu, *qʰu
絿	*ɡu
銶	*ɡu
毬	*ɡu
捄	*ɡu, *ko
觩	*ɡu

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡu): semantic 辵 (“to walk”) + phonetic 求 (OC *ɡu).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
    • Yale: chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: kau⁴
    • Yale: kàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: keo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjuw

Rime
Character	逑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨鳩切
Baxter	gjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guw/
Li Rong	/ɡiu/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kau4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɡ(r)u/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡu/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	逑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ gjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*ɡ(r)u/
English	come together; mate (n.)
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	逑
Reading #	1/1
No.	10562
Phonetic component	求
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𧚍
Old Chinese	/*ɡu/

Definitions

逑

1. (literary) spouse

Compounds

• 好逑 (hǎoqiú)

Japanese

Kanji

逑

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. pair
2. gather, meet

Readings

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: あう (au, 逑う)^{←あふ (afu, 逑ふ, historical)}、あつまる (atsumaru, 逑まる)、あつめる (atsumeru, 逑める)、つれあい (tsureai, 逑い)^{←つれあひ (tureafi, 逑ひ, historical)}

Compounds

• 好逑(こうきゅう) (kōkyū)

References

• “^▲逑”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

逑 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

1. collect, unite
2. match, pair