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See also: かわ and しま
しゅう U+5DDE, 州
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DDE
かわ
[U+5DDD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5DDF]

Translingual

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Han character

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Stroke order
 

しゅう (Kangxi radical 47, +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input ほこちゅうほこちゅう (ILIL), four-corner 32000, composition ⿻⿲丿かわ(GJKV) or ⿻⿲丶丶かわ(HT))

Derived characters

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Alternative forms

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Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 324, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 46, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5DDE

Chinese

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trad. しゅう
simp. # しゅう
alternative forms 𠄓
 
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Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character しゅう
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
           

Pictogram (象形しょうけい) – islet in a river.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character しゅう
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) あきら (23)
Final (いん) ゆう (136)
Tone (調しらべ) Level (Ø)
Openness (ひらきあい) Open
Division (ひとし) III
Fanqie しょくながれきり
Baxter tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuw/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zau1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character しゅう
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*tu/
English islet in stream; province

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character しゅう
Reading # 1/1
No. 17493
Phonetic
component
しゅう
Rime
group
かそけ
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
しゅう
Old
Chinese
/*tju/

Definitions

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しゅう

  1. Alternative form of しま (zhōu, islet in a river)
  2. (historical, now still used in place names) zhou (a type of historical political divisions of China, usually translated as prefecture or province)
    あげしゅうしゅう  ―  Yángzhōu  ―  (historical) Yang Province; (modern) Yangzhou
  3. Short for 自治じちしゅう (zìzhìzhōu).
  4. state; canton; oblast (of some countries)

Synonyms

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See also

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Descendants

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  • Lü: ᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ (tsoew¹)
  • Manchu: ᠵᡝᠣ (jeo)
  • Mongolian: ᠵᠧᠦ (ǰēü), жүү (žüü)
  • Khotanese: -cū

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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しゅう

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
しゅう
しゅう
Grade: 3
kan'on

From Middle Chinese しゅう (MC tsyuw).

Noun

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しゅう(しゅう) (shūしう (siu)?

  1. first-level administrative division of some countries, such as: (1) state of the United States, Australia, India, Nigeria and Germany; (2) province of Canada; (3) canton of Switzerland; etc.
  2. used in place names, usually associated with (historical) political divisions
Compounds
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
しゅう
しゅう
Grade: 3
kan'on
Alternative spelling
しま (dated)

しゅう is a daiyōji replacing しま.

Suffix

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しゅう(しゅう) (-shūしう (siu)?

  1. continent
  2. used in place names
Compounds
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Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
しゅう

Grade: 3
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of しゅう – see the following entry.
[noun] しゅう, しま: sandbank, sandbar
Alternative spelling
しま
(This term, しゅう, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Wikisource

しゅう (eumhun 고을 (go'eul ju))

  1. hanja form? of (state; province)

Compounds

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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しゅう: Hán Nôm readings: châu, chu

  1. state, province