銖

Translingual

Han character

銖 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金竹十木 (CHJD), four-corner 8519₀)

1. unit of weight, one twenty-fourth of a Chinese ounce (liang(兩), tael)

References

• KangXi: page 1305, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40383
• Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4197, character 6
• Unihan data for U+9296

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Cantonese

Hanzi

銖 (simplified 铢, Yale jyu1)

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Japanese

Kanji

銖

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu), じゅ (ju)
• Kun: にぶい (nibui)

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Korean

Hanja

銖 (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune-Reischauer su, Yale swu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

銖 (simplified 铢, pinyin hòu (hou4), xiàng (xiang4), zhū (zhu1), Wade-Giles hou⁴, hsiang⁴, chu¹)

Noun

1. ancient currency unit, equivalent to hundred grains of millet
2. baht, Thailand main currency unit.

Last modified on 19 August 2012, at 04:49