裘

裘 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈水卜竹女 (IEYHV), four-corner 4373₂, composition ⿱求衣)

• 𫱹, 𭯧, 𩱘, 𣰐, 𦽲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1117, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34312
• Dae Jaweon: page 1583, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3090, character 9
• Unihan data for U+88D8

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷɯ): phonetic 求 (OC *ɡu) + semantic 衣 (“clothes”).

Probably Sino-Tibetan. Various comparanda have been proposed:

• Tibetan གྲུ (gru, “boat (of inflated hides)”) (Bodman, 1980);
• Tamang [Term?] (¹kuri, “skin”) (Schuessler, 2007);
• Tibetan གོས (gos, “clothes”), Japhug ŋga (“to wear”), Tangut 𗔛 (*gjwi², “to wear”) (Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019; Sims, 2025).

裘

1. fur coat; fur garment

   • 蔡昭侯為兩佩與兩裘以如楚，獻一佩一裘於昭王。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     蔡昭侯为两佩与两裘以如楚，献一佩一裘于昭王。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Cài Zhāo hóu wéi liǎng pèi yǔ liǎng qiú yǐ rú chǔ, xiàn yī pèi yī qiú yú Zhāo wáng. [Pinyin]

     Zhao, marquis of Cai, had made two sets of girdle-ornaments and two robes of fur, with which he went to Chu, where he presented one set and one robe to king Zhao.

2. (literary) to wear a fur coat

   • 是月也，天子始裘。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shì yuè yě, tiānzǐ shǐ qiú. [Pinyin]

     In this month, the son of Heaven sets the example of wearing furs.

3. (Southern Min) padded jacket; lined jacket

   未食五日節粽，破裘毋甘放 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
   未食五日节粽，破裘毋甘放 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

   bōe chia̍h Gō͘-ji̍t-cheh chàng, phòa hiû m̄-kam pàng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Without eating rice dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, torn padded jackets cannot be discarded (a proverb)

4. a surname

   裘錫圭／裘锡圭  ―  Qiú Xīguī  ―  Qiu Xigui (Chinese paleographer)

• “裘”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}
• Kun: かわごろも (kawagoromo, 裘)^{←かはごろも (kafagoromo, 裘, historical)}

Compound of 皮(かわ) (kawa, “skin”) + 衣(ころも) (koromo, “coat, robe”).

裘(かわごろも) • (kawagoromo) 

1. fur coat

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

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裘: Hán Nôm readings: cừu, cầu

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