咒

See also: 呪

咒 U+5492, 咒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5492 ← 咑 [U+5491] CJK Unified Ideographs 咓 → [U+5493]

Translingual

Han character

咒 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹弓 (RRHN), four-corner 6621₇, composition ⿱吅几)

Derived characters

• 𭡒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 185, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3444
• Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 277, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5492

Chinese

simp. and trad.		咒
alternative forms		呪 祝 詋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
祝	*tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪	*tjus
咒	*tjus
柷	*tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhòu (zhou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau³
• Eastern Min (BUC): céu
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ziu⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhòu
    • Wade–Giles: chou⁴
    • Yale: jòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
    • Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau³
    • Yale: jau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: céu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɛu²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ziu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiù
    • Tâi-lô: tsiù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siu²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siu⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siu²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siu¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siu²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziu³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyuwH

Rime
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	職救切
Baxter	tsyuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuwH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	咒
Reading #	1/1
No.	17652
Phonetic component	祝
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	呪
Old Chinese	/*tjus/
Notes	同呪

Definitions

咒

1. religious incantation or mantra; spell

   魔咒 (mózhòu, “magical spell”)

   大悲咒 (Dàbēizhòu, “Great Compassion Mantra”)

   • 2023, “小林不動產”, 梁嘉茵 [Serrini] (lyrics), 林家謙 [Terence Lam] (music)‎^[1]performed by 林家謙 [Terence Lam]:

     我　中了懶咒 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     我　中了懒咒 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     ngo⁵, zung³ liu⁵ laan⁵ zau³ [Jyutping]

     I'm under a laziness spell

2. curse; malediction
3. to curse; to damn

   詛咒／诅咒 (zǔzhòu, “to curse”)

Compounds

• 三咒
• 千咒萬罵／千咒万骂
• 咒印
• 咀咒 (jǔzhòu)
• 咒咀
• 咒師／咒师
• 咒心
• 咒愿
• 咒文 (zhòuwén)
• 咒殺／咒杀 (zhòushā)
• 咒水
• 咒神
• 咒縛／咒缚
• 咒罵／咒骂 (zhòumà)
• 咒藏
• 咒術／咒术
• 咒詛／咒诅 (zhòuzǔ)
• 咒詈 (zhòulì)
• 咒語／咒语 (zhòuyǔ)
• 咒誦／咒诵
• 咒誓 (zhòushì)
• 咒讖／咒谶
• 咒遍
• 咒音
• 咒願／咒愿
• 唸咒／念咒 (niànzhòu)
• 大咒
• 大悲咒 (Dàbēizhòu)
• 密咒
• 往生咒 (wǎngshēngzhòu)
• 心咒
• 念咒 (niànzhòu)
• 普庵咒
• 書符咒水／书符咒水
• 沒咒念／没咒念
• 牙疼咒 (yáténgzhòu)
• 發咒／发咒
• 白口咀咒
• 禁咒
• 符咒 (fúzhòu)
• 經咒／经咒
• 緊箍咒／紧箍咒 (jǐngūzhòu)
• 詛咒／诅咒 (zǔzhòu)
• 譴咒／谴咒
• 賭咒／赌咒 (dǔzhòu)
• 魔咒 (mózhòu)

 

References

• “咒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “咒”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 312.

Japanese

Shinjitai	呪
Kyūjitai	咒

Kanji

咒

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 呪)

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Readings

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: じゅ (ju)
• Kun: まじなう (majinau, 咒う)、のろい (noroi, 咒い)、のろう (norou, 咒う)

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕu]
• Phonetic hangul: [주]

Hanja

Wikisource

咒 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咒: Hán Nôm readings: chú

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