洲

洲 U+6D32, 洲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D32
← 洱
[U+6D31] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 洳 →
[U+6D33]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

洲 (radical 85, 水+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 水戈中中 (EILL), four-corner 32100, composition ⿰氵州)

References

  • KangXi: page 622, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17413
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1018, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1616, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+6D32

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 洲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (州) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洲 *tju
州 *tju
喌 *tju, *tjuɡ
酬 *dju
詶 *dju, *djus

Etymology

Unknown.

According to the Erya and the Shiming, the following characters show some notable semantic relations (Schuessler, 2007)

渚 (OC *tjaʔ, “islet”) is smaller than 洲 (OC *tju)
沚 (OC *kjɯʔ, “islet”) is smaller than 渚 (OC *tjaʔ)
坻 (OC *tiːlʔ, *tjelʔ, *dil, “islet”) is smaller than 沚 (OC *kjɯʔ)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 洲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 洲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tu/
English islet

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 洲
Reading # 1/1
No. 17492
Phonetic
component		 州
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 周
Old
Chinese		 /*tju/

Definitions

洲

  1. islet in a river
  2. continent
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 白蘋洲／白苹洲
  • 白鷺洲／白鹭洲
  • 百花洲
  • 綠洲／绿洲 (lǜzhōu)
  • 美洲 (Měizhōu)
  • 美洲組織／美洲组织
  • 美洲虎
  • 美洲豹 (měizhōubào)
  • 老洲 (Lǎozhōu)
  • 芳洲
  • 蘆洲／芦洲
  • 蘆洲蟹舍／芦洲蟹舍
  • 赤道非洲
  • 非洲 (Fēizhōu)
  • 非洲綠猴／非洲绿猴
  • 非洲菊
  • 非洲菫
  • 非洲象 (Fēizhōu xiàng)
  • 非洲鼓
  • 鸚鵡洲／鹦鹉洲

Japanese

Kanji

洲

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. continent

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

洲 • (ju) (hangeul 주, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

  1. continent

Vietnamese

Han character

洲 (chao, châu)

  1. continent

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville
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