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

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/

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
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷa/

Definitions

衢

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)

crossroads

Readings

Go-on: ぐ (gu)
Kan-on: く (ku)
Kun: みち (michi)、ちまた (chimata, 衢)、わかれみち (wakaremichi)

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)

Vietnamese

Han character

衢: Hán Nôm readings: cù

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