戌

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 戊 + 一 (“one”)

Han character

戌 (radical 62 戈+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹一 (IHM), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿵戊一)

1. eleventh of twelve earthly branches (十二支): dog (狗) of Chinese zodiac

Descendants

• 威, 咸, 歲, 𤇳, 烕

References

• KangXi: page 411, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11535
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1398, character 1
• Unihan data for U+620C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

戌 (Yale seut1)

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Japanese

Kanji

戌

Readings

• On: じゅつ (jutsu)
• Kun: いぬ (inu)

Noun

戌 (hiragana いぬ, romaji inu)

1. the hour of the dog; a historical duel-hour equivalent to 7PM - 9PM
   • c. 935: Tosa Nikki (page 3)

     それの年の十二月の二十日あまり一日の日の戌の刻に、門出す。

     I departed on the twenty and one day of the twelfth month of that year at the hour of the dog.

References

• 1989, Masaharu Hasegawa; Yūichirō Imanishi, Hiroshi Itō, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 24: Tosa Nikki, Kagerō Nikki, Murasaki Shikibu Nikki, Sarashina Nikki, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-00-240024-7:

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Korean

Hanja

戌 (hangeul 술, revised sul, McCune-Reischauer sul, Yale swul)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

戌 (pinyin xū (xu1), Wade-Giles hsü¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戌 (tuất)