郹

郹 U+90F9, 郹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90F9 ← 郸 [U+90F8] CJK Unified Ideographs 郺 → [U+90FA]

Translingual

Han character

郹 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 月大弓中 (BKNL), four-corner 6742₇, composition ⿰狊阝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1274, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39501
• Dae Jaweon: page 1772, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3783, character 5
• Unihan data for U+90F9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		郹
alternative forms		郥 鄓 𨜯 ⿰⿱且八阝 ⿰𰥍阝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瞁	*qʰʷeɡ, *qʰʷeːɡ
湨	*kʷeːɡ
郹	*kʷeːɡ
狊	*kʷeːɡ, *qʰʷeːɡ
鶪	*kʷeːɡ
鼳	*kʷeːɡ
犑	*kʷeːɡ
闃	*kʰʷeːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jú (ju²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jú
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyú
    • Wade–Giles: chü²
    • Yale: jyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwik¹
    • Yale: gwīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: guig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwek

Rime
Character	郹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	錫 (128)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古闃切
Baxter	kwek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/kuek̚/
Wang Li	/kiwek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiwek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ju
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwik1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	郹
Reading #	1/1
No.	7033
Phonetic component	狊
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	郹
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːɡ/

Definitions

郹

1. (～陽) name of a city belonging to the Chinese feudal state of Cai (蔡 (cài)) during the Spring and Autumn Period, now part of Xincai County (新蔡縣 / 新蔡县) in southeastern Henan Province

   楚子之在蔡也，郹陽封人之女奔之，生太子建 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   楚子之在蔡也，郹阳封人之女奔之，生太子建 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

   Chǔ Zǐ zhī zài Cài yě, Júyáng fēngrén zhī nǚ bēn zhī, shēng tàizǐ Jiàn [Pinyin]

   When the Master of Chu was in Cai, the daughter of the hereditary prefect of Juyang fled to him and bore to him the heir Jian.

2. name of a place belonging to Chinese feudal state of Wei (衛 / 卫 (wèi)) during the Spring and Autumn Period, now part of Juye County (鉅野縣 / 巨野县) in western Shandong Province
3. a surname

References

• “郹”, 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–
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05164