苴 · jū
sackcloth; female hemp plant
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
sackcloth; female hemp plant
- Mandarin
- jū
- Cantonese
- zeoi1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 苴 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
ショ ソ サ ス シュ ホウ ジャ タイ つと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 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+82F4
- Radical
- 艸 · 140
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 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 苴
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 且 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 且聲
Line 236 · ⿱艹且 · 且聲 · source reference 0123650
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
- tshjo · 七余 反切 · #233
- Middle Chinese
- tsjo · 子魚 反切 · #245
- Middle Chinese
- dzrae · 鉏加 反切 · #794
- Middle Chinese
- tsjoX · 子與 反切 · #1350
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 1992 · tshjo = 遇開三平魚清 · tsjo = 遇開三平魚精 · dzrae = 假開二平麻崇 · tsjoX = 遇開三上魚精
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
- jū
- kCantonese
- zeoi1
- kDefinition
- sackcloth; female hemp plant
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 140.5
- kTGH
- 2013:3860
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jū,chá,zhǎ,zū,jiē,bāo,xié 53190.050
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jū 0609.120
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jū 183.070
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jū粵zeoi1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 七余 子魚 鉏加 子與
- Kangxi positions
- 1024.160
- Guangyun positions
- 068.41 071.19 169.24 259.42
- GSR references
- 0046t
- Cangjie
- TBM
- Four-corner
- 4410.7