Wiktionary

州

See also: 川 and 洲
州 U+5DDE, 州
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DDE
← 川
[U+5DDD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 巟 →
[U+5DDF]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

Stroke order
 

州 (Kangxi radical 47, 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 32000, composition ⿻⿲丿丶丶川(GJKV) or ⿻⿲丶丶丶川(HT))

Derived characters edit

Alternative forms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 324, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 46, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5DDE

Chinese edit

trad. 州
simp. # 州
alternative forms 𠄓
 
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 州 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 州 (Cantonese)

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 州
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
           
Characters in the same phonetic series (州) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洲 *tju
州 *tju
喌 *tju, *tjuɡ
酬 *dju
詶 *dju, *djus

Pictogram (象形) – islet in a river.

Pronunciation edit

Rime
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
Baxter tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuw/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zau1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhōu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tu/
English islet in stream; province

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 州
Reading # 1/1
No. 17493
Phonetic
component 		州
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		周
Old
Chinese 		/*tju/

Definitions edit

州

  1. † Alternative form of 洲 (zhōu, “islet in a river”)
  2. (historical, now still used in place names) zhou (a type of historical political divisions of China, usually translated as prefecture or province)
    揚州／扬州  ―  Yángzhōu  ―  (historical) Yang Province; (modern) Yangzhou
  3. Short for 自治州 (zìzhìzhōu).
  4. state; canton; oblast (of some countries)

Synonyms edit

See also edit

  • 省份 (shěngfèn), 省 (shěng, “province”)
  • 縣／县 (xiàn, “county”)
  • 邦 (bāng, “state, especially Indian or Burmese”)

Descendants edit

  • → Lü: ᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ (tsoew¹)
  • → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠣ (jeo)
  • → Mongolian: ᠵᠧᠦ (ǰēü), жүү (žüü)
  • → Khotanese: -cū

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

州

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
州
しゅう
Grade: 3
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 州 (MC tsyuw).

Noun edit

州(しゅう) • (shū) ←しう (siu)?

  1. first-level administrative division of some countries, such as: (1) state of the United States, Australia, India, Nigeria and Germany; (2) province of Canada; (3) canton of Switzerland; etc.
  2. used in place names, usually associated with (historical) political divisions
Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
州
しゅう
Grade: 3
kan’on
Alternative spelling
洲 (dated)

州 is a daiyōji replacing 洲.

Suffix edit

州(しゅう) • (-shū) ←しう (siu)?

  1. continent
  2. used in place names
Compounds edit

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
州
す
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 州 – see the following entry.
【す】H
[noun] 州, 洲: sandbank, sandbar
Alternative spelling
洲
(This term, 州, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation edit

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

州 (eumhun 고을 주 (go'eul ju))

  1. Hanja form? of 주 (“state; province”).

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

州: Hán Nôm readings: châu, chu

  1. state, province
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