僦

僦 U+50E6, 僦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50E6 ← 僥 [U+50E5] CJK Unified Ideographs 僧 → [U+50E7]

Translingual

Han character

僦 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+12, 14 strokes, cangjie input 人卜火山 (OYFU), four-corner 2321₄, composition ⿰亻就)

1. to hire
2. to rent

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 117, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1115
• Dae Jaweon: page 248, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 221, character 2
• Unihan data for U+50E6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Small seal script s05923
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (就) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
僦	*ʔsuɡs
就	*zuɡs
鷲	*zuɡs
殧	*zuɡs, *ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ
噈	*ʔsuɡ
蹴	*ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiù (jiu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau⁶, zau³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiòu
    • Wade–Giles: chiu⁴
    • Yale: jyòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiow
    • Palladius: цзю (czju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zau⁶, zau³
    • Yale: jauh, jau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau⁶, dzau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo⁶, zeo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯²²/, /t͡sɐu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjuwH

Rime
Character	僦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	即救切
Baxter	tsjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suwH/
Li Rong	/t͡siuH/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭəuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	僦
Reading #	1/1
No.	6993
Phonetic component	就
Rime group	奧
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuɡs/

Definitions

僦

1. (literary) to rent; to hire
2. ^† rental (the payment made to rent something)

Japanese

Kanji

僦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): しゅう (shū); しゅ (shu)
• Kun: かりる (kariru, 僦りる); おくる (okuru, 僦る); あつまる (atsumaru, 僦まる)

Korean

Hanja

僦 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

僦: Hán Việt readings: tựu

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