鞫

鞫 · jū

interrogate, question

Entry ↗

Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
jū
Cantonese
guk1
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

interrogate, question

Dictionary definitions & readings

鞫 jū · to interrogate; to question; Taiwan pr. jú

CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG · 2026-10-13 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
74344.040:jū,qū Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0611.090:jū Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
184.100:jū Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
jū粵guk1 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
キク コク Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
국:0N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
居六 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
TJPYR Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
4752.0 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
1390.020 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
455.05 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
1017j Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+97AB
Radical
革 · 177
Strokes
18
Residual strokes
9
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 2 · #6317

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

18 strokes
鞫
Strokes
18
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

18 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
kjuwk · 居六 · 通開三入東見 · #3203

PHONO-ML, source line 16420; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
1468.305
kCowles
1873
kFennIndex
113.02
kGSR
1017j
kHanYu
74344.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74344.040
kIRGKangXi
1390.020
kKangXi
1390.020
kMatthews
1591
kMeyerWempe
1327g
kMorohashi
42931
kNelson
5102
kSBGY
455.05
kSMSZD2003Index
767.07
kCangjie
TJPYR
kFourCornerCode
4752.0
kMojiJoho
MJ028013
kPhonetic
680 732
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kIICore
AGKP
kIRG_GSource
G0-7736
kIRG_HSource
HB2-F17C
kIRG_JSource
J0-6B71
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D1BC
kIRG_KSource
K0-4F54
kIRG_TSource
T2-6448
kRSUnicode
177.9
kTotalStrokes
18
kBigFive
F17C
kCCCII
234D74
kCNS1986
2-6448
kCNS1992
2-6448
kEACC
234D74
kGB0
8722
kGB1
8722
kJis0
7581
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
7265
kTGH
2013:6317
kTaiwanTelegraph
7265
kXerox
275:301
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6708+177.9.9
kCantonese
guk1
kDefinition
interrogate, question
kFanqie
居六
kHangul
국:0N
kHanyuPinyin
74344.040:jū,qū
kJapanese
キク コク
kJapaneseKun
KIWAMERU KIWAMARU
kJapaneseOn
KIKU
kKorean
KWU
kMandarin
jū
kSMSZD2003Readings
jū粵guk1
kTGHZ2013
184.100:jū
kXHC1983
0611.090:jū
kSemanticVariant
U+8ACA<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

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⿰ Left / right

Shape description
革 beside 訇 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿰革訇$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰革訇$(GHTJKP)

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