束

束 (radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木口)

• 速

• KangXi: page 512, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1158, character 3
• Unihan data for U+675F

Historical forms of the character 束
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) – bag tied at both ends (earlier forms were often vertically symmetric).

束

1. to bind; to tie up
   • 束縛 / 束缚  ―  shùfù  ―  to bind; to tie up
2. to control; to restrain
   • 拘束  ―  jūshù  ―  restraint; inhibited; constraint
3. end
   • 結束 / 结束  ―  jiéshù  ―  end
4. bunch; bundle; bale
5. Classifier for objects in bunches or bundles, such as bouquets of flowers.
   • 一束玫瑰  ―  yī shù méiguī  ―  a bouquet of roses
6. A surname​.

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Go-on: そく (soku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: たば (taba, 束, Jōyō); たばねる (tabaneru, 束ねる); つか (tsuka, 束); つかねる (tsukaneru, 束ねる)

• 結 (けっ)束 (そく) (kessoku): union, unity
• 拘 (こう)束 (そく) (kōsoku): restriction, restraint
• 装 (しょう)束 (ぞく) (shōzoku): costume, attire
• 束 (そく)帯 (たい) (sokutai): old ceremonial court dress
• 束 (そく)に立 (た)つ (soku ni tatsu)
• 束 (そく)縛 (ばく) (sokubaku): restraint, shackles
• 束 (そく)髪 (はつ) (sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
• 電 (でん)束 (そく) (densoku): electric flux
• 波 (は)束 (そく) (hasoku): wave packet
• 約 (やく)束 (そく) (yakusoku): arrangement, convention

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

• 把

束 (hiragana たば, rōmaji -taba)

1. counter for bundles

   それは一 (ひと)束 (たば)十 (じゅう)円 (えん)の値 (ね)段 (だん)でした

   sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita

   They cost 10 yen a bundle

束 (hiragana たば, rōmaji taba)

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼 (かれ)は古 (ふる)い手 (て)紙 (がみ)を束 (たば)にした

   kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita

   He bound old letters into a bundle

• 札 (さつ)束 (たば) (satsutaba): wad of bills
• 束 (たば)になって掛 (か)かる (taba ni natte kakaru): attack all in a bunch
• 束 (たば)ねる (tabaneru): tie up in a bundle
• 花 (はな)束 (たば) (hanataba): bunch of flowers

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つか​ [tsùkáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝka̠]

束 (hiragana つか, rōmaji tsuka)

1. handbreadth, bundle

• 束 (つか)の間 (ま) (tsukanoma): brief space of time

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) そ​く [sóꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [so̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

束 (hiragana そく, rōmaji -soku)

1. large bundles

束 (hiragana そく, rōmaji soku)

1. (mathematics, order theory) lattice

束 • (sok) (hangeul 속, revised sok, McCune–Reischauer sok, Yale sok)

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束 (thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc)

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