箸 · zhù
chopsticks
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
chopsticks
- Mandarin
- zhù
- Cantonese
- zyu6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 箸 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 저
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7BB8
- Radical
- 竹 · 118
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 9
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 箸
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 者 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 者聲
Line 9657 · ⿱竹者 · 者聲 · source reference 1430630
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trjoH · 陟慮 反切 · #2298
- Middle Chinese
- drjoH · 遟倨 反切 · #2302
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 13279 · trjoH = 遇開三去魚知 · drjoH = 遇開三去魚澄
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhù
- kCantonese
- zyu6
- kDefinition
- chopsticks
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 118.9
- kTGH
- 2013:5746
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhù,zhuó 52979.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhù 1514.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhù 486.060
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhù粵zyu6,zyu3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 陟慮 遟倨
- Kangxi positions
- 0891.030
- Guangyun positions
- 362.30 362.53
- GSR references
- 0045j
- Cangjie
- HJKA
- Four-corner
- 8860.4