灸

灸 U+7078, 灸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7078
← 灷
[U+7077] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 灹 →
[U+7079]

Translingual

Han character

灸 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓人火 (NOF), four-corner 27809, composition ⿱久火)

Derived characters

  • 𮏅

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 666, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18872
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 16
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2190, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7078

Chinese

trad. 灸
simp. # 灸

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (久) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
畂 *ɡʷ·rɯs
久 *kʷlɯʔ
灸 *kʷlɯʔ, *kʷlɯs
玖 *kʷlɯʔ
疚 *kʷlɯs
柩 *ɡʷlɯs
羑 *ɡʷ·lɯʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʷlɯʔ, *kʷlɯs): semantic 火 + phonetic 久 (OC *kʷlɯʔ).[1]

Pronunciation

Note:
  • gu4 - vernacular;
  • giu4 - literary.
Note:
  • kù - vernacular;
  • kiù - literary.
Rime
Character 灸 灸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 舉有切 居祐切
Baxter kjuwX kjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɨuX/ /kɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kiuX/ /kiuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiəuX/ /kiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kuwX/ /kuwH/
Li
Rong 		/kiuX/ /kiuH/
Wang
Li 		/kĭəuX/ /kĭəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ki̯ə̯uX/ /ki̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jiǔ jiù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau2 gau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 灸
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jiǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[k]ʷəʔ/
English cauterize by burning tinder

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 灸 灸
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6970 6972
Phonetic
component 		久 久
Rime
group 		之 之
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		久 救
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷlɯʔ/ /*kʷlɯs/

Definitions

灸

  1. cauterize with moxa or mugwort
  2. moxibustion

Compounds

References

  1. ^ Tōdō, Akiyasu, Matsumoto, Akira, Takeda, Akira, Kanō, Yoshimitsu, editors (2018), 漢字源 [Kanjigen] (in Japanese), Revised sixth edition, Gakken, →ISBN

Japanese

Kanji

灸

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. moxibustion

Readings

  • Go-on: く (ku)
  • Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)←きう (kiu, historical)
  • Kun: やいと (yaito, 灸)←やいと (yaito, 灸, historical)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
灸
きゅう
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 灸 (MC kjuwX|kjuwH).

Alternative forms

  • お灸(きゅう) (o-kyū)

Noun

灸(きゅう) • (kyū) ←きう (kiu)?

  1. moxibustion
Synonyms
  • 灸治(きゅうじ) (kyūji)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
灸
やいと
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From 焼き (yaki, “scorching”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 焼(や)く (yaku).) + 処 (to, “place”).

Noun

灸(やいと) • (yaito) ←やいと (yaito)?

  1. Same as above.

References

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. (뜸) moxibustion

Compounds

See also

Vietnamese

Han character

灸: Hán Nôm readings: cứu

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