櫝

See also: 椟 and ⿰木売

櫝 U+6ADD, 櫝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6ADD ← 櫜 [U+6ADC] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫞 → [U+6ADE]

Translingual

Traditional	櫝
Shinjitai (extended)	⿰木売
Simplified	椟

Han character

櫝 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木土田金 (DGWC), four-corner 4498₆, composition ⿰木賣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15821
• Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1312, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6ADD

Chinese

trad.		櫝
simp.		椟
alternative forms		匵／𰅥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 櫝
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (𧶠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
竇	*l'oːɡs
續	*ljoɡs, *ljoɡ
覿	*l'juːɡ
黷	*l'oːɡ
讟	*l'oːɡ
殰	*l'oːɡ
讀	*l'oːɡ
櫝	*l'oːɡ
牘	*l'oːɡ
儥	*l'oːɡ
贕	*l'oːɡ
皾	*l'oːɡ
瓄	*l'oːɡ
瀆	*l'oːɡ
豄	*l'oːɡ
韇	*l'oːɡ
嬻	*l'oːɡ
犢	*l'oːɡ
匵	*l'oːɡ
藚	*ljoɡ
襩	*ɦljoɡ
贖	*ɦljoɡ
𧶠	*luɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'oːɡ) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 𧶠 (OC *luɡ).

Etymology

Compare Khmer ទូ (tuu), Lao ຕູ້ (tū), Thai ตู้ (dtûu), Vietnamese tủ.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dú (du²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): duk⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dú
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dú
    • Wade–Giles: tu²
    • Yale: dú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dwu
    • Palladius: ду (du)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: duk⁶
    • Yale: duhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: duk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʊk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: duwk

Rime
Character	櫝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	徒谷切
Baxter	duwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/duk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/duk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/duk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dəwk̚/
Li Rong	/duk̚/
Wang Li	/duk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱuk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	duk6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤok/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'oːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	櫝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dú
Middle Chinese	‹ duwk ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁok/
English	coffer; box
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	櫝
Reading #	1/1
No.	16040
Phonetic component	𧶠
Rime group	屋
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	獨
Old Chinese	/*l'oːɡ/

Definitions

櫝

1. box; case; casket
2. cabinet; wardrobe
3. closet

Compounds

• 買櫝還珠 / 买椟还珠 (mǎidúhuánzhū)

 

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	⿰木売
Kyūjitai	櫝

Kanji

櫝

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿰木売)

1. cabinet, wardrobe, closet
2. chest
3. coffer

Readings

• On (unclassified): とく (toku)、どく (doku)
• Kun: はこ (hako)、ひつぎ (hitsugi)

Compounds

• 買(ばい)櫝(とく)還(かん)珠(しゅ) (baitokukanshu)

 

Korean

Hanja

櫝 (eum 독 (dok))

1. box
2. coffin

Vietnamese

Han character

櫝: Hán Nôm readings: độc

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References

• Nom Foundation