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Translingual

Han character

(radical 64 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手山山 (QUU), four-corner 52072, composition)

  1. poor, unskillful, stupid, clumsy, crude
  2. convention
Antonyms

References

  • KangXi: page 426, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11965
  • Dae Jaweon: page 775, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1860, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+62D9

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
*kljods
*sqʰluds
*kʰljuds, *kʰljud
*ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
*qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
*ŋr'uːd
*ŋr'oːd
*ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
*sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
*kljod
*kljod, *l̥ʰud
*ɡlod, *ɡlud
*l'uːd
*kluːd, *qʰluːd
*kluːd, *ɡluːd
*kʰluːd
*kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
*kʰluːd, *ɡlud
*kʰluːd, *pʰlɯːlʔ, *pʰlɯːls, *pʰlɯlʔ
*ʔl'ud
*ʔl'ud
*l̥ʰud
*klud, *kʰlud
*klud
*klud
*kʰlud
*ɡlud
*ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂuo⁵⁵/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
/t͡suo²⁴/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂuo²¹/
/t͡suo²¹/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂuə²¹³/
Qingdao /tʃuə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/
Xi'an /p͡fo²¹/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂuɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fə³¹/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂuɤ⁵¹/
Wuhan /t͡ɕye²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡sue³¹/
/t͡sʰo³¹/
Guiyang /t͡sʰo²¹/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂueʔ⁵/
/t͡ɕyeʔ⁵/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡suaʔ²/
Pingyao
Hohhot /t͡suaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /t͡soʔ⁵/
/t͡səʔ⁵/
Suzhou /t͡səʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /t͡sɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕye²⁴/
Xiangtan /ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /t͡sot̚¹/
Taoyuan /tʃot̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡syt̚³/
Nanning /t͡syt̚²²/
Hong Kong /t͡syt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡suat̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡suɔʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡suak̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tuak̚⁵/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (23)
Final () (82)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕiuᴇt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʷiɛt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕjuæt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cwiat̚/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiuɛt̚/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭuɛt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯wɛt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhuo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhuō
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsywet ›
Old
Chinese
/*[t]ot/
English stupid, inept

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 1557
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kljod/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 勤能補拙勤能补拙
  • 口拙
  • 古拙
  • 命乖運拙命乖运拙
  • 大巧若拙
  • 守拙
  • 將勤補拙将勤补拙
  • 工拙
  • 巧拙
  • 弄巧反拙
  • 弄巧成拙 (nòngqiǎochéngzhuō)
  • 心勞日拙心劳日拙
  • 心拙口夯
  • 心拙口笨
  • 愚拙 (yúzhuō)
  • 才疏計拙才疏计拙
  • 拙作
  • 拙劣 (zhuōliè)
  • 拙口笨腮
  • 拙口鈍腮拙口钝腮
  • 拙口鈍辭拙口钝辞
  • 拙夫
  • 拙實拙实
  • 拙於言辭拙于言辞
  • 拙樸拙朴
  • 拙澀拙涩
  • 拙物
  • 拙病
  • 拙目
  • 拙眼
  • 拙笨 (zhuōbèn)
  • 拙筆拙笔
  • 拙荊拙荆
  • 拙著
  • 拙見拙见 (zhuōjiàn)
  • 拙計拙计 (zhuōjì)
  • 時乖運拙时乖运拙
  • 樸拙朴拙
  • 犯拙
  • 獻拙献拙
  • 百拙千醜百拙千丑
  • 眼拙
  • 稚拙 (zhìzhuō)
  • 笨口拙舌
  • 笨嘴拙腮
  • 笨拙 (bènzhuō)
  • 老拙
  • 藏拙
  • 蚩拙
  • 計窮途拙计穷途拙
  • 辭巧理拙辞巧理拙
  • 迂拙
  • 運拙時乖运拙时乖
  • 運拙時艱运拙时艰
  • 避賢謝拙避贤谢拙
  • 養拙养拙
  • 鳩拙鸠拙

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(jol) (hangeul , revised jol, McCune-Reischauer chol, Yale col)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(chút, choắt, chuyết, sụt, trút, choét, chót, đúc, nhốt, suốt)

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