區

See also: 区
區 U+5340, 區
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5340
← 匿
[U+533F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 十 →
[U+5341]

Translingual
Japanese 区
Simplified 区
Traditional 區

Han character

區 (radical 23, 匸+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 尸口口口 (SRRR), four-corner 71716, composition ⿷匚品(GJKV) or ⿷匸品(HT))

Derived characters

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 155, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2691
  • Dae Jaweon: page 348, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 87, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5340

Chinese
trad. 區
simp. 区

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 區
Shang Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (區) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
摳 *kʰoː, *kʰo
彄 *kʰoː
剾 *kʰoː, *qoː
謳 *qoː
歐 *qoː, *qoːʔ
區 *qoː, *kʰo
鷗 *qoː
甌 *qoː
漚 *qoː, *qoːs
瞘 *qoː
嘔 *qoː, *qoːʔ
櫙 *qoː
膒 *qoː
蓲 *qoː, *kʰu, *qo, *qos
醧 *qoː, *qas
鏂 *qoː
毆 *qoːʔ
塸 *qoːʔ
貙 *kʰl'o
樞 *kʰjo
驅 *kʰo, *kʰos
軀 *kʰo
嶇 *kʰo
鰸 *kʰo
敺 *kʰo
傴 *qoʔ
嫗 *qos
饇 *qos

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 匸 + 品 (“three men”) – Many people (品) hide in 匸.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 區
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 豈俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /kʰio/
Wang
Li		 /kʰĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qū
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
No. 10605
Phonetic
component		 區
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 區
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰo/

Definitions

區

  1. area; district; region; ward
  2. administrative division
  3. residence; dwelling
  4. small house
  5. world; the human world
  6. small; tiny
  7. mediocre; ordinary
  8. to distinguish; to differentiate
  9. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 區

Pronunciation
Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Rime
Character 區
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 烏侯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔəw/
Li
Rong		 /ʔu/
Wang
Li		 /əu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ōu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 區
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qˁ(r)o/
English (a measure)

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 區
Reading # 1/2
No. 10584
Phonetic
component		 區
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 謳
Old
Chinese		 /*qoː/

Definitions

區

  1. (historical) an ancient measuring vessel
  2. (historical) Classifier for the amount measured by one ou.
  3. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 區

Japanese

Shinjitai

 区

Kyūjitai

 區

Kanji
區

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 区)

  1. ward
  2. district

Readings

Korean

Hanja

區 • (gu, u) (hangeul 구, 우, McCune–Reischauer ku, u)

  1. area
  2. district
  3. region
  4. ward

Vietnamese

Han character

區 (khu, khù, au, âu)

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