久

See also: 乆
久 U+4E45, 久
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E45
← 乄
[U+4E44] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 乆 →
[U+4E46]

Translingual

Stroke order

Glyph origin

Pictogram (象形) - a man receiving moxibustion. The derivative 灸 refers to the original word.

Han character

久 (radical 4 丿+2, 3 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO) or X弓人 (XNO), four-corner 27800)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 81, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 118
  • Dae Jaweon: page 165, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 33, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+4E45

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 久
alt. forms 乆

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kiú - literary;
  • kú - vernacular.
Rime
Character 久
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 舉有切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kuwX/
Li
Rong		 /kiuX/
Wang
Li		 /kĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiǔ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 久
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kjuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ʷəʔ/
English a long time

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 久
Reading # 1/1
No. 6969
Phonetic
component		 久
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 久
Old
Chinese		 /*kʷlɯʔ/

Definitions

久

  1. (of time) long
    你待了多久？  ―  Nǐ dāi le duōjiǔ?  ―  How long did you stay?
    我們走路走了很久。 [MSC, trad.]
    我们走路走了很久。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒmen zǒulù zǒu le hěn jiǔ. [Pinyin]
    We walked for a long time.
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

久

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. eternity, forever

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

久 (hiragana ひさし, rōmaji Hisashi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

久 • (gu)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 구 (revised: gu, McCune–Reischauer: ku)
    • Name (hangeul): 오랠 (revised: orael, McCune–Reischauer: orael)
  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

Vietnamese

Han character

久 (cửu, nhân, nhơn, nhợn)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.