啾

啾 U+557E, 啾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-557E ← 啽 [U+557D] CJK Unified Ideographs 啿 → [U+557F]

Translingual

Han character

啾 (radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口竹木火 (RHDF), four-corner 6908₀, composition ⿰口秋)

References

• KangXi: page 197, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3892
• Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 656, character 10
• Unihan data for U+557E

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		啾

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鍫	*sʰew
篍	*sʰiw, *sʰiws, *sʰɯw
愀	*sʰiwʔ, *zɯwʔ
湫	*ʔsliwʔ, *ʔsɯw, *sʰɯw, *zɯwʔ
揪	*ʔsɯw
揫	*ʔsɯw
啾	*ʔsɯw
鬏	*ʔsɯw
秋	*sʰɯw
鰍	*sʰɯw
楸	*sʰɯw
秌	*sʰɯw
鞦	*sʰɯw
鶖	*sʰɯw
萩	*sʰɯw
甃	*ʔsrɯws
醔	*sʰrɯw
愁	*zrɯw
僽	*zrɯws

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsɯw): semantic 口 + phonetic 秋 (OC *sʰɯw).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū (jiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Wade–Giles: chiu1
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiou
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjoʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau¹
    • Yale: jāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡sɨu/

Rime
Character	啾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即由切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siu/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suw/
Li Rong	/t͡siu/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiū

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsɯw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	啾
Reading #	1/1
No.	10534
Phonetic component	秋
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	遒
Old Chinese	/*ʔsɯw/

Definitions

啾

1. waa (wailing of a child)
2. chirp (of a bird)

Compounds

• 唧唧啾啾
• 啁啾
• 啾唧

• 啾啾 (jiūjiū)
• 啾啾唧唧
• 啾疾

• 嘲啾
• 苦啾啾

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Japanese

Kanji

啾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)
• Kun: なく (naku)

Compounds

Compounds

• 啾啾 (しゅうしゅう, shūshū)
• 鬼哭啾啾 (きこくしゅうしゅう, kikokushūshū)
• 啾喞 (しゅうしつ, shūshitsu or しゅうしょく, shūshoku)
• 啾啁 (ちゅうしゅう, chūshū or とうしゅう, tōshū)
• 啾喧 (しゅうけん, shūken)
• 喧啾 (けんしゅう, kenshū)

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Korean

Hanja

啾 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

啾: Hán Nôm readings: thu, tu

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