衢

衢 U+8862, 衢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8862 ← 衡 [U+8861] CJK Unified Ideographs 衣 → [U+8863]

Translingual

Han character

衢 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月土弓 (HOBGN), four-corner 2122₁, composition ⿴行瞿 or ⿲彳瞿亍)

Derived characters

• 𡆚 𩇐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1110, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34090
• Dae Jaweon: page 1575, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 852, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8862

Chinese

simp. and trad.		衢
alternative forms		衐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 衢
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
瞿	*kʷas, *ɡʷa
衢	*ɡʷa
氍	*ɡʷa
癯	*ɡʷa
蠷	*ɡʷa
臞	*ɡʷa, *ɡʷas
欋	*ɡʷa
鸜	*ɡʷa
灈	*ɡʷa
躣	*ɡʷa
忂	*ɡʷa
戵	*ɡʷa
鑺	*ɡʷa
懼	*ɡʷas

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷa) : semantic 行 + phonetic 瞿 (OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qú (qu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kû
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶jiu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qú
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü²
    • Yale: chyú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: keoi⁴
    • Yale: kèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: koey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɵy̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kû
    • Tâi-lô: kû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuu
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ku²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ku¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ku²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ku²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶jiu
    • MiniDict: jiu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jjy
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑy²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gju

Rime
Character	衢
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	其俱切
Baxter	gju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡio/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/guə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡio/
Wang Li	/ɡĭu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	keoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷa/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	衢
Reading #	1/1
No.	7139
Phonetic component	瞿
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	衢
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷa/

Definitions

衢

1. highway
2. thoroughfare
3. intersection

Compounds

• 九衢
• 交衢
• 亨衢
• 天衢
• 康衢
• 柳陌花衢
• 禁衢
• 街衢
• 衢室之問／衢室之问
• 衢州 (Qúzhōu)
• 衢肆
• 衢路
• 衢道
• 路衢
• 通衢 (tōngqú)
• 通衢大道
• 通衢廣陌／通衢广陌
• 高步通衢
• 高步雲衢／高步云衢
• 龍躍天衢／龙跃天衢

 

Japanese

Kanji

衢

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. crossroads

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)
• Kun: みち (michi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
衢
ちまた Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 衢 – see the following entry.

【ちまた】 [noun] fork in the road [noun] alley [noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議／街谈巷议) Alternative spellings 巷, 岐

(This term, 衢, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

衢 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)

1. highway
2. thoroughfare, intersection

Vietnamese

Han character

衢: Hán Nôm readings: cù

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