株

株 U+682A, 株
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-682A
← 栩
[U+6829]
CJK Unified Ideographs 栫 →
[U+682B]
㊑ U+3291, ㊑
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH STOCK
← ㊐
[U+3290]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊒ →
[U+3292]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

株 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木竹十木 (DHJD), four-corner 45990, composition ⿰木朱)

References

  • KangXi: page 523, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14723
  • Dae Jaweon: page 911, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1199, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+682A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
株

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *to) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 朱 (OC *tjo).

Etymology

Perhaps Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɟhooʔ (“tree; wood”), whence Mon ဆု (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • du1 - vernacular;
  • zu1 - literary.

Rime
Character 株
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 陟輸切
Baxter trju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʈɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʈio/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȶio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʈuə̆/
Li
Rong
/ȶio/
Wang
Li
/ȶĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȶi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zyu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 株
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhū
Middle
Chinese
‹ trju ›
Old
Chinese
/*tro/
English tree root, stem

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 株
Reading # 1/1
No. 17557
Phonetic
component
朱
Rime
group
侯
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
株
Old
Chinese
/*to/
Notes 朱轉註字

Definitions

株

  1. tree stump
    守株待兔  ―  shǒuzhūdàitù  ―  (literally) to watch a tree stump waiting for a rabbit
  2. plant
  3. Classifier for plants. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  4. Classifier for viruses.
  5. root

Synonyms

  • (plant):
  • (classifier for plants):

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Tai: *toːᴬ

Japanese

Kanji

株

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
株
かぶ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kampu. Cognate with Kunigami 株 (かぶー, khabū), Northern Amami-Oshima 株 (がぶ, gabu), Okinawan 株 (かぶ, kabu).

Pronunciation

Noun

株(かぶ) • (kabu) 

  1. stump of a tree
  2. stock (in a company)
  3. share(s) of stock
  4. (virology) variant; strain
    デルタ株(かぶ)
    deruta-kabu
    delta variant (COVID-19)

Suffix

株(かぶ) • (-kabu) 

  1. Abbreviation for 株(かぶ)式(しき)会(がい)社(しゃ) (kabushiki gaisha, “stock company”); inc.
Coordinate terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
株
しゅ
Grade: 6
kan’yōon

From Middle Chinese 株 (trju).

Pronunciation

Noun

株(しゅ) • (shu) 

  1. stump of a tree
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
株
くい
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 株 – see the following entry.
【くい】
[noun] stake, pile, post
Alternative spellings
杭, 杙, 株
(This term, 株, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
株
くいぜ
Grade: 6
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 株 – see the following entry.
【くいぜ】
[noun] stump
Alternative spellings
杭, 杙, 株
(This term, 株, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

株 (eumhun 그루 주 (geuru ju))

  1. Hanja form? of 주 (“stump of a tree”).

Vietnamese

Han character

株: Hán Nôm readings: chò, châu, chu

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