陬 · zōu
corner, cranny, nook, niche
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
corner, cranny, nook, niche
- Mandarin
- zōu
- Cantonese
- zau1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 陬 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.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 추
- KS X 1002 (1) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+966C
- Radical
- 阜 · 170
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 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 陬
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 取 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 取聲
Line 4395 · ⿰阝取 · 取聲 · source reference 5000110
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
- tsju · 子于 反切 · #270
- Middle Chinese
- tsrjuw · 側鳩 反切 · #1008
- Middle Chinese
- tsuw · 子侯 反切 · #1024
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 2432 · tsju = 遇合三平虞精 · tsrjuw = 流開三平尤莊 · tsuw = 流開一平侯精
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
- zōu
- kCantonese
- zau1
- kDefinition
- corner, cranny, nook, niche
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 170.8
- kTGH
- 2013:4681
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zōu,zhé 64135.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zōu 1542.050
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zōu 494.010
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zōu粵zau1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 子于 側鳩 子侯
- Kangxi positions
- 1352.230
- Guangyun positions
- 079.30 209.05 214.19
- GSR references
- 0131l
- Cangjie
- NLSJE
- Four-corner
- 7124.7