丶

See also: ` [U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT], \ [U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS], and 、 [U+3001 IDEOGRAPHIC COMMA]

丶 U+4E36, 丶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36 ← 丵 [U+4E35] CJK Unified Ideographs 丷 → [U+4E37]

⼂ U+2F02, ⼂ KANGXI RADICAL DOT ← ⼁ [U+2F01] Kangxi Radicals ⼃ → [U+2F03]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

丶 (Kangxi radical 3, 丶+0, 1 stroke, cangjie input 戈 (I) or 難戈 (XI), four-corner 3000₀)

1. Kangxi radical #3, ⼂.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/丶

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 80, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 91
• Dae Jaweon: page 162, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 42, character 8
• Unihan data for U+4E36

Chinese

simp. and trad.		丶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 丶
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script
Transcribed ancient scripts L14405 L14406 L14407 L14408 L14409 L14410 L14411 L14413 L14414
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

A small fire on a torch, when used as the original form of 主 (which is unrelated with the right part of 往 < 𢓸); otherwise, it was just a point.

However, in most of the Chinese characters, in can represent many different things: ice (冰), water (汉), minerals (金, 丹), an eye (鸟), grains of sand (小), grains of salt (鹵), kernel of millet used to produce sacrifical wine (鬯), fire (火, 然), a tattoo on face as a form of punishment (黑), air coming out of a speaking mouth (兑), a line over a bifurcated tongue to underline the concept of "speaking" (言) or a line over a chisel to mark prisoners (辛), grass (草), the upper part of a door (户), the horns of a sheep (羊) or a lamb (羔), one horn of a cow or bull (牛, 告), a decoration on top of a flagpole (旅), a footprint pointing upwards (往, 之), the head of a man with a tattoo on his chest (文), the head of a man standing (立), the point of a roof (字, 京, 高), wine coming out of a vessel (酋)...

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǔ (zhu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chú
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chu³
    • Yale: jǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juu
    • Palladius: чжу (čžu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zyu²
    • Yale: jyú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
    • Tâi-lô: tsú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: trjuX

Rime
Character	丶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	知 (9)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	知庾切
Baxter	trjuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʈɨoX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈioX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȶioX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈuə̆X/
Li Rong	/ȶioX/
Wang Li	/ȶĭuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȶi̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*toʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	丶
Reading #	1/1
No.	17601
Phonetic component	丶
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	拄
Old Chinese	/*toʔ/

Definitions

丶

1. An ancient punctuation mark.
2. Alternative form of 主

Japanese

Kanji

丶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. tick or dot radical No. 3 (てん, ten)
2. dot

Readings

• On (unclassified): ちゅう (chū)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kun: てん (ten)

Synonyms

• 点

Usage notes

• Appears only as a radical.

Korean

Hanja

丶 (eumhun 점 주 (jeom ju))

1. comma

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

丶: Hán Nôm readings: chủ

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References

• Nom Foundation