屈

Character	屈 U+5C48, 屈
Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C48
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
← 屇 [U+5C47] [U+5C49] 屉 →

Contents

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Historical forms of the character 屈
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Simplified from 𡲶.

Han characterEdit

屈 (radical 44 尸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 尸山山 (SUU), four-corner 7727₂, composition ⿸尸出)

Derived charactersEdit

• 掘 堀

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 301, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7669
• Dae Jaweon: page 597, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 970, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5C48

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		屈

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qū (qu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wat¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qū
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ü¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wat¹
    • Yale: wāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wat⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /wɐt̚⁵/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 屈
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕʰy²¹/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕʰy⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕʰy²¹/
	Xining	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕʰy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕʰy³¹/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕʰy⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕʰyo³¹/ /t͡ɕʰy³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕʰiu²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕʰiu³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕʰyʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕʰyəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕʰyʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/ /t͡ɕʰyɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕʰyəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡ɕʰioʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕʰy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰyeʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕʰy⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰyʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰiut̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/kʰut̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wɐt̚⁵/
	Nanning	/wɐt̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/wɐt̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kʰut̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kʰouʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/kʰy²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kʰuk̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/xut̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨut̚/, /kʰɨut̚/▼

Rime
Character	屈	屈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	物 (60)	物 (60)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	九勿切	區勿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨut̚/	/kʰɨut̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kiut̚/	/kʰiut̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuət̚/	/kʰiuət̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kut̚/	/kʰut̚/
Li Rong	/kiuət̚/	/kʰiuət̚/
Wang Li	/kĭuət̚/	/kʰĭuət̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯uət̚/	/kʰi̯uət̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ju	qu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*Nə-[kʰ]ut/, /*[kʰ]ut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*klud/, /*kʰlud/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屈	屈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qū	qū
Middle Chinese	‹ khjut ›	‹ khjut ›
Old Chinese	/*Nə-[kʰ]ut/	/*[kʰ]ut/
English	bent	bend, subdue
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	屈	屈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1579	1583
Phonetic component	出	出
Rime group	物	物
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	𠀔	屈
Old Chinese	/*klud/	/*kʰlud/

DefinitionsEdit

1. bend, flex
2. bent, crooked
3. crouch

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

屈

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: くち (kuchi), ごち (gochi)
• Kan’on: くつ (kutsu)
• Kun: かがむ (kagamu), かがめる (kagameru)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

屈 • ‎(gul) (hangeul 굴, revised gul, McCune-Reischauer kul)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

屈 (khuất, quất)

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