絀

See also: 绌

絀 U+7D40, 絀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D40 ← 紿 [U+7D3F] CJK Unified Ideographs 絁 → [U+7D41]

Translingual

Han character

絀 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 女火山山 (VFUU), four-corner 2297₇, composition ⿰糹出)

1. deep red
2. sew, stitch
3. dismiss

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 920, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27370
• Dae Jaweon: page 1353, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3387, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7D40

Chinese

trad.		絀
simp.		绌

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
聉	*r̥ʰuːlʔ, *ŋrɯd, *ʔr'uːd, *ŋruːd
贅	*kljods
祟	*sqʰluds
出	*kʰljuds, *kʰljud
茁	*ʔl'ɯd, *skruːd, *skrod, *skrud
欪	*qʰlɯd, *l̥ʰud
貀	*ŋr'uːd
袦	*ŋr'oːd
咄	*ʔl'oːd, *ʔl'uːd
柮	*sɡloːd, *ʔl'uːd
拙	*kljod
炪	*kljod, *l̥ʰud
掘	*ɡlod, *ɡlud
鈯	*l'uːd
啒	*kluːd, *qʰluːd
淈	*kluːd, *ɡluːd
窟	*kʰluːd
泏	*kʰluːd, *ʔl'ud
堀	*kʰluːd, *ɡlud
胐	*kʰluːd
窋	*ʔl'ud
絀	*ʔl'ud
黜	*l̥ʰud
屈	*klud, *kʰlud
趉	*klud
鶌	*klud
詘	*kʰlud
倔	*ɡlud
崛	*ɡlud, *ŋɡlud

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyut³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): coeh⁶ / cyeh⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thut

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyut³
    • Yale: jyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: jud³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːt̚³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: coeh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: cyeh⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyøʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thut
    • Tâi-lô: thut
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tud
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰut̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰut̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰut̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: trwit

Rime
Character	絀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	竹律切
Baxter	trwit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶjuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈwit̚/
Li Rong	/ȶiuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeot1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔl'ud/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	絀
Reading #	1/1
No.	1572
Phonetic component	出
Rime group	物
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	㤕
Old Chinese	/*ʔl'ud/

Definitions

絀

1. insufficient
2. deep red
3. sew; stitch
4. Alternative form of 黜 (chù, “to dismiss”)

References

• “絀”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “絀”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[2] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “绌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 35.

Japanese

Kanji

絀

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sew
2. stitch
3. insufficient

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちゅつ (chutsu)、ちゅち (chuchi)
• Kun: あかい (akai)

Korean

Hanja

絀 • (chul) (hangeul 출, revised chul, McCune–Reischauer ch'ul, Yale chwul)

1. decline, refuse
2. sew