畜 · chù
livestock, domestic animals
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
livestock, domestic animals
- Mandarin
- chù
- Cantonese
- cuk1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 畜 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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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
チク キク キュウ ク チュウ チュ たくわえる やしなう かう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
- 축
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
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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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kVietnamese ↗ · provisional property
róc sộc súc sục xộcForm & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+755C
- Radical
- 田 · 102
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
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 畜
Character connections
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Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- trhjuwH · 丑救 反切 · #3046
- Middle Chinese
- xjuwk · 許竹 反切 · #3213
- Middle Chinese
- trhjuwk · 丑六 反切 · #3224
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 15824 · trhjuwH = 流開三去尤徹 · xjuwk = 通開三入東曉 · trhjuwk = 通開三入東徹
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
- chù
- kCantonese
- cuk1
- kDefinition
- livestock, domestic animals
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 102.5
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:2047
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chù,xù 42538.040
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chù 0161.010 · xù 1302.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chù 051.040 · xù 413.170
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chù(21) xù(14)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- xù粵cuk1 chù粵cuk1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 丑救 許竹 丑六
- Kangxi positions
- 0761.120
- Guangyun positions
- 436.03 456.45
- GSR references
- 1018a
- Cangjie
- YVIW
- Four-corner
- 0060.3