鞠 · jū
bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish
- Mandarin
- jū
- Cantonese
- guk1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 鞠 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
- 국
- 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+97A0
- Radical
- 革 · 177
- Strokes
- 17 · Unihan
- Residual
- 8
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
17 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 鞠
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
- kjuwk · 居六 反切 · #3203
- Middle Chinese
- khjuwk · 驅匊 反切 · #3204
- Middle Chinese
- gjuwk · 渠竹 反切 · #3208
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 16411 · kjuwk = 通開三入東見 · khjuwk = 通開三入東溪 · gjuwk = 通開三入東群
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
- guk1
- kDefinition
- bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish
- kTotalStrokes
- 17
- kRSUnicode
- 177.8
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:3391
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- jū,qū,qiōng 74340.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- jū 0609.170
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- jū 184.090
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- jū粵guk1
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 居六 驅匊 渠竹
- Kangxi positions
- 1389.050
- Guangyun positions
- 454.47 455.31 456.13
- GSR references
- 1017h
- Cangjie
- TJPFD
- Four-corner
- 4752.0