雎

See also: 睢

雎 U+96CE, 雎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-96CE ← 雍 [U+96CD] CJK Unified Ideographs 雏 → [U+96CF]

Translingual

Han character

雎 (Kangxi radical 172, 隹+5, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月一人土 (BMOG), four-corner 7011₄, composition ⿰且隹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1366, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42001
• Dae Jaweon: page 1871, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4096, character 15
• Unihan data for U+96CE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		雎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 雎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
虘	*zaːl, *zaː
蔖	*zlaːl, *sʰaːʔ
摣	*rnaː, *ʔsraː
袓	*ʔsjaː, *zaʔ
怚	*ʔsjaː, *ʔsas, *zaʔ
罝	*ʔsjaː
謯	*ʔslja, *ʔsraːʔ
姐	*ʔsjaːʔ
抯	*ʔsljaːʔ, *ljaːʔ, *ʔsraː
飷	*ʔsjaːʔ
且	*sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa
趄	*sʰjaːs, *sʰa
笡	*sʰjaːs
查	*ʔsraː, *zraː, *zraː
柤	*ʔsraː
樝	*ʔsraː
皻	*ʔsraː
渣	*ʔsraː
楂	*zraː
苴	*zraː, *ʔsa, *ʔsaʔ, *sʰa
駔	*ʔslaːŋʔ, *zaːʔ
租	*ʔsaː
蒩	*ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa
祖	*ʔsaːʔ
組	*ʔsaːʔ
珇	*ʔsaːʔ
靻	*ʔsaːʔ
粗	*sʰaː, *zaːʔ
徂	*zaː
殂	*zaː
麆	*zaːʔ, *zras
伹	*zaːʔ, *sʰa
蛆	*ʔsa, *sʰa
沮	*ʔsa, *ʔsas, *sʰa, *zaʔ, *ʔsra
咀	*ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ
疽	*sʰa
雎	*sʰa
狙	*sʰa, *sʰas
岨	*sʰa
砠	*sʰa
坥	*sʰa, *sʰas
刞	*sʰas
覰	*sʰas
覷	*sʰas
跙	*zaʔ
筯	*das
菹	*ʔsra
葅	*ʔsra
阻	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
俎	*ʔsraʔ
詛	*ʔsraʔ, *ʔsras
鉏	*zra, *zraʔ
豠	*zra
鋤	*zra
耡	*zra, *zras
齟	*zraʔ
助	*zras

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰa): phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa) + semantic 隹 (“bird”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jū (ju¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chir / chu / chi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyu
    • Wade–Giles: chü¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiu
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zeoi¹
    • Yale: jēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chir
    • Tâi-lô: tsir
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sɯ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi
    • Tâi-lô: tsi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cy
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡si⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tshjo

Rime
Character	雎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七余切
Baxter	tshjo
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɨə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiɔ/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭo/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]a/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰa/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jū
Middle Chinese	‹ tshjo ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]a/
English	雎鳩 tshjo.kjuw an aquatic bird
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	雎
Reading #	1/1
No.	10422
Phonetic component	且
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	疽
Old Chinese	/*sʰa/

Definitions

雎

1. Used in 雎鳩／雎鸠 (jūjiū).
2. used in old names

   范雎 ― Fan Ju, Grand Chancellor of Qin state

3. (mythology) a river

   • 荊山之首，曰景山，……。雎水出焉，……。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     荆山之首，曰景山，……。雎水出焉，……。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Mountains and Seas

     Jīngshān zhī shǒu, yuē jǐngshān,....... Jūshuǐ chū yān,....... [Pinyin]

     Mount Jīng's summit is called mount Jǐng, [...] wherefrom the river Jū flows out [...].

Compounds

• 雎鳩 / 雎鸠 (jūjiū)

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 雎

雎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: そ (so)
• Kan-on: しょ (sho)
• Kun: みさご (misago, 雎)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
雎
みさご Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 雎 – see the following entry.

【鶚みさご】H [noun] osprey, Pandion haliaetus Alternative spellings 鵃, 雎鳩, ミサゴ

(This term, 雎, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

雎 • (jeo) (hangeul 저, revised jeo, McCune–Reischauer chŏ, Yale ce)

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