沼

沼 U+6CBC, 沼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CBC
← 治
[U+6CBB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 沽 →
[U+6CBD]

Translingual

Han character

沼 (radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水尸竹口 (ESHR), four-corner 37162, composition ⿰氵召)

  1. lake
  2. fishpond
  3. swamps

References
  • KangXi: page 614, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17257
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1008, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1597, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6CBC

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 沼

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (刀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
刀 *taːw
忉 *taːw
鱽
舠 *taːw
朷 *taːw, *moːɡ
叨 *tuːw, *l̥ʰaːw
倒 *taːwʔ, *taːws
到 *taːws
菿 *taːws, *rtaːwɢ
鞀 *deːw
鳭 *rteːw, *teːw
灱 *hreːw
菬 *sdew, *tjewʔ
超 *tʰew
怊 *tʰew, *tʰjew
欩 *tʰew
召 *dews, *djews
昭 *tjew
招 *tjew
鉊 *tjew
沼 *tjewʔ
照 *tjews
詔 *tjews
炤 *tjews
弨 *tʰjew, *tʰjewʔ
眧 *tʰjewʔ
韶 *djew
佋 *djew, *djewʔ
軺 *djew, *lew
玿 *djew
柖 *djew
紹 *djewʔ
袑 *djewʔ
綤 *djewʔ
邵 *djews
劭 *djews
卲 *djews
刁 *teːw
芀 *teːw, *deːw
貂 *teːw
蛁 *teːw
迢 *deːw
苕 *deːw
髫 *deːw
岧 *deːw

Pronunciation
Note:
  • chiáu - literary;
  • chiau - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 沼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之少切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕiᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ciawX/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhǎo
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 沼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tawʔ/
English pool

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 沼
Reading # 1/1
No. 2130
Phonetic
component		 刀
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 沼
Old
Chinese		 /*tjewʔ/

Definitions

沼

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Compounds
  • 廢沼／废沼
  • 慧沼
  • 池沼 (chízhǎo)
  • 沼山 (Zhǎoshān)

Japanese

Kanji
沼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
沼
ぬ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Root of the Old Japanese verb ぬる (nuru, “to become loose; to become wet”) and modern Japanese 濡れる (nureru, “to become wet”), adverb ぬるぬる (nurunuru, “loosely; lukewarmly; oozingly”).

May be cognate with Korean 늪 (neup, “swamp, bog, marsh”), Mongolian нам (nam, “low-lying”), намаг (namag, “swamp, bog, marsh”), норох (noroh, “to become wet”).

Generally only used in compounds in modern Japanese.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

沼 (hiragana ぬ, rōmaji nu)

  1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2
沼 (numa): a marsh, a wetland.
Kanji in this term
沼
ぬま
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Appears to be a compound of 沼 (nu, “swamp”) +‎ 間 (ma, “space, area”).

Pronunciation

Noun

沼 (hiragana ぬま, rōmaji numa)

  1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland
Derived terms
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 3
Kanji in this term
沼
しょう
Grade: S
on’yomi

/seu/ → /ɕeu/ → /ɕʲoː/

From Middle Chinese 沼 (tsyewX, “swamp”). Compare modern Mandarin 沼 (zhǎo).

Only ever used in compounds.

Pronunciation

Affix

沼 (hiragana しょう, rōmaji shō, historical hiragana せう)

  1. a swamp, a bog, a marsh, a wetland
Derived terms
Derived terms

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

沼 (eum 소 (so))

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Vietnamese

Han character

沼: Hán Nôm readings: trẻo

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