勼

勼 U+52FC, 勼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52FC ← 勻 [U+52FB] CJK Unified Ideographs 勽 → [U+52FD]

Translingual

Han character

勼 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心大弓 (PKN) or 難心大弓 (XPKN), four-corner 2742₀, composition ⿹勹九)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 150, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2498
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 256, character 2
• Unihan data for U+52FC

Chinese

simp. and trad.		勼

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 勼
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiū (jiu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄡ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gau¹, kau¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kiû
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiou
    • Wade–Giles: chiu¹
    • Yale: jyōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiou
    • Palladius: цзю (czju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gau¹, kau¹
    • Yale: gāu, kāu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gau¹, kau¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: geo¹, keo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐu̯⁵⁵/, /kʰɐu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kiû
    • Hakka Romanization System: giu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: giu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯u²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiu
    • Tâi-lô: kiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiu⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kjuw

Rime
Character	勼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居求切
Baxter	kjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/kiu/
Shao Rongfen	/kiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kuw/
Li Rong	/kiu/
Wang Li	/kĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ku/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	勼
Reading #	1/1
No.	6940
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鳩
Old Chinese	/*ku/

Definitions

勼

1. ^† to gather

   alt. forms: 鳩／鸠 (jiū)

2. (Hokkien) to contract; to shrink
3. (Hokkien, by extension) to recoil and withdraw; to shrink and retreat
4. (Quanzhou Hokkien, specifically) to shrink due to absorbing water (of cloth, etc.)
5. (Quanzhou Hokkien, specifically) to become skinny, contracted, or disappear (caused by some reason)

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 糾／纠

Compounds

• 伸勼
• 勼勼狹狹／勼勼狭狭
• 勼圇／勼囵
• 勼寒
• 勼手
• 勼水
• 勼狹／勼狭
• 勼跤
• 勼跤勼手
• 老倒勼

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C00800
• “勼”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

勼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): きゅう (kyū); く (ku)
• Kun: あつめる (atsumeru); あつまる (atsumaru)

Korean

Hanja

勼 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku)

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