銖

See also: 铢

銖	U+9296, 銖 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9296

← 銕
[U+9295]

CJK Unified Ideographs

銗 →
[U+9297]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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

References edit

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1305, character 5
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40383
Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4197, character 6
Unihan data for U+9296

Chinese edit

trad.		銖
simp.		铢

Wikipedia has articles on:

銖 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
泰銖 (Written Standard Chinese^?)

Glyph origin edit

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

	Old Chinese
咮	tu, tus, tos, tjo
株	*to
誅	*to
邾	*to
鼄	*to
跦	*to
袾	to, tʰjo
鴸	to, tjo
蛛	*to
殊	to, djo
趎	*do
珠	*tjo
朱	*tjo
侏	*tjo
絑	*tjo
祩	tjo, tjos
鮢	*tjo
硃	*tjo
姝	*tʰjo
銖	*djo
茱	*djo
洙	*djo
陎	*djo

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “"baht" is a corruption of 末 (𰼤)?”)

Pronunciation edit

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zhū (zhu¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ
Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chu

(Teochew, Peng'im): zu¹ / su⁵ / puag⁴ / puêg⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: zhū
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhu
  - Wade–Giles: chu¹
  - Yale: jū
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
  - Palladius: чжу (čžu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: zyu¹
  - Yale: jyū
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: ju¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
  - Tâi-lô: tsu
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zw
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: zu¹ / su⁵ / puag⁴ / puêg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsu / sû / phuak / phuek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³³/, /su⁵⁵/, /pʰuak̚²/, /pʰuek̚²/

Note: puag4/puêg4 - "baht" (puêg4 - Chaozhou).

Middle Chinese: dzyu

Rime
Character	銖
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	市朱切
Baxter	dzyu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑio/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑuə̆/
Li Rong	/ʑio/
Wang Li	/ʑĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	syu⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*djo/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	銖
Reading #	1/1
No.	17581
Phonetic component	朱
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	殊
Old Chinese	/*djo/

Definitions edit

銖

(historical) zhu (an ancient Chinese unit of weight notionally equivalent to 100 millet seeds or 1/24 liang/tael, chiefly used for denominating small coins)
Thai baht (currency unit)
a surname