孓 · jué
beautiful
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
beautiful
- Mandarin
- jué
- Cantonese
- kyut3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5B53
- Radical
- 子 · 39
- Strokes
- 3 · Unihan
- Residual
- 0
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
3 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 孓
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- kjowngX · 居悚 反切 · #1183
- Middle Chinese
- kjwot · 居月 反切 · #3357
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 8982 · kjowngX = 通開三上鍾見 · kjwot = 山合三入元見
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
- jué
- kCantonese
- kyut3
- kDefinition
- beautiful
- kTotalStrokes
- 3
- kRSUnicode
- 39.0
- kTGH
- 2013:3506
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jué 21008.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jué 0620.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jué 188.020
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jué粵kyut3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 居悚 居月
- Kangxi positions
- 0277.081
- Guangyun positions
- 239.13 476.03 478.33
- Cangjie
- NNO
- Four-corner
- 1740.0