宔

宔 U+5B94, 宔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B94 ← 宓 [U+5B93] CJK Unified Ideographs 宕 → [U+5B95]

Translingual

Han character

宔 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十卜土 (JYG), composition ⿱宀主)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 283, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7102
• Dae Jaweon: page 556, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 923, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5B94

Chinese

simp. and trad.		宔

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǔ (zhu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chu³
    • Yale: jǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu²
    • Yale: jyú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuX

Rime
Character	宔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之庾切
Baxter	tsyuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆X/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjoʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	宔
Reading #	1/1
No.	17620
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	主
Old Chinese	/*tjoʔ/

Definitions

宔

1. (Archaic) A stone box that contains a 神位  ―  shénwèi  ―  Spirit tablet used to honor the memory of a recently diseased emperor and/or leader

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (粵拼資料庫)

Japanese

Kanji

宔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. (archaic) A stone box containing a 位(い)牌(はい) (ihai, “mortuary tablet”) used to honor the memory of a recently deceased emperor and/or leader

Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅ (shu)