厹

厹 U+53B9, 厹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53B9 ← 厸 [U+53B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 厺 → [U+53BA]

Translingual

Han character

厹 (Kangxi radical 28, 厶+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大弓戈 (KNI) or X大弓戈 (XKNI), four-corner 4773₁, composition ⿱九厶)

1. spear
2. tribe

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 164, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3065
• Dae Jaweon: page 371, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 384, character 5
• Unihan data for U+53B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		厹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 厹 – see 蹂 (“trample under foot, tread on”). (This character, 厹, is a variant form of 蹂.)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		厹
alternative forms		叴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qiú (qiu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄡˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kau⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
    • Yale: chyóu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
    • Palladius: цю (cju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kau⁴
    • Yale: kàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: keo⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐu̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gjuw

Rime
Character	厹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨鳩切
Baxter	gjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guw/
Li Rong	/ɡiu/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kau4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡu/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	厹
Reading #	1/1
No.	6948
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	𧚍
Old Chinese	/*ɡu/
Notes	同叴見詩

Definitions

厹

1. Used in 厹矛.

Etymology 3

The character 厹 looks like 九公 written vertically, and 九 (gau²) has the same pronunciation as 狗 (gau²) in Cantonese.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau² gung¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau² gung¹
    • Yale: gáu gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau² gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo² gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯³⁵ kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

厹

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) Alternative form of 狗公 (“pervert; lecher”)

References

• “厹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

厹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じゅう (jū)^{←じう (ziu, historical)}; にゅ (nyu)^{←にゆ (nyu, historical)}; きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}; ぐ (gu)

Korean

Hanja

厹 • (gu) (hangeul 구)

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