踞

踞 U+8E1E, 踞 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E1E ← 踝 [U+8E1D] CJK Unified Ideographs 踟 → [U+8E1F]

Translingual

Han character

踞 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口一尸十口 (RMSJR), four-corner 6716₄, composition ⿰𧾷居)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1228, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37642
• Dae Jaweon: page 1700, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3720, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8E1E

Chinese

simp. and trad.		踞
alternative forms		倨

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
箇	*kaːls
個	*kaːls
居	*kɯ, *kas
橭	*kaː, *kʰaː
嫴	*kaː
姑	*kaː
辜	*kaː
酤	*kaː, *kaːs, *ɡaːʔ
蛄	*kaː
鴣	*kaː
沽	*kaː, *kaːʔ, *kaːs
盬	*kaː, *kaːʔ
古	*kaːʔ
罟	*kaːʔ
估	*kaːʔ
鈷	*kaːʔ
詁	*kaːʔ
牯	*kaːʔ
故	*kaːs
固	*kaːs
稒	*kaːɡs
痼	*kaːɡs
錮	*kaːɡs
鯝	*kaːɡs
棝	*kaːɡs
凅	*kaːɡs
枯	*kʰaː
軲	*kʰaː
跍	*kʰaː
骷	*kʰaː
苦	*kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs
葫	*qʰaː, *ɡaː
餬	*ɡaː
瑚	*ɡaː
湖	*ɡaː
鶘	*ɡaː
猢	*ɡaː
醐	*ɡaː
糊	*ɡaː
箶	*ɡaː
蝴	*ɡaː
胡	*ɡaː
瓳	*ɡaː
怙	*ɡaːʔ
祜	*ɡaːʔ
岵	*ɡaːʔ
婟	*ɡaːʔ, *ɡaːɡs
楛	*ɡaːʔ
据	*ka
裾	*ka
琚	*ka
椐	*ka, *kas, *kʰa
鶋	*ka
蜛	*ka
崌	*ka
涺	*ka
腒	*ka, *ɡa
鋸	*kas
倨	*kas
踞	*kas
涸	*ɡaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kas): semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 居 (OC *kɯ, *kas).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jù (ju⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gy⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kù

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jù
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyù
    • Wade–Giles: chü⁴
    • Yale: jyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiuh
    • Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: geoi³
    • Yale: geui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: goey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵy̯³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gy⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gṳ̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ky⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kù
    • Tâi-lô: kù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ku²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ku⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ku²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ku¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ku²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kjoH

Rime
Character	踞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居御切
Baxter	kjoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨʌH/
Pan Wuyun	/kiɔH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɔH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨə̆H/
Li Rong	/kiɔH/
Wang Li	/kĭoH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ki̯woH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	geoi3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kas/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	踞
Reading #	1/1
No.	4276
Phonetic component	古
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	據
Old Chinese	/*kas/

Definitions

踞

1. to crouch; to squat; to sit
2. to occupy

   盤踞／盘踞  ―  pánjù  ―  to illegally or forcibly occupy; to be entrenched

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to lean on
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 倨 (jù, “haughty; arrogant”)
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 鋸 / 锯 (jù, “saw”)

Compounds

• 盤踞 / 盘踞 (pánjù)
• 科頭箕踞 / 科头箕踞
• 竄踞 / 窜踞
• 箕踞 (jījù)
• 虎踞
• 虎踞鯨吞 / 虎踞鲸吞
• 虎踞龍盤 / 虎踞龙盘
• 虎踞龍蟠 / 虎踞龙蟠
• 蟠踞 (pánjù)
• 踞坐
• 踞肆
• 蹲踞 (dūnjù)
• 雄踞 (xióngjù)
• 高踞 (gāojù)
• 龍盤虎踞 / 龙盘虎踞 (lóngpánhǔjù)
• 龍蟠虎踞 / 龙蟠虎踞 (lóngpánhǔjù)

Pronunciation 2

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khuh

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khuh
    • Tâi-lô: khuh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: quq
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰuʔ⁵/

Definitions

踞

1. (Quanzhou Hokkien) to make do with staying (for a certain time somewhere)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “踞”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 117.

Japanese

Kanji

踞

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こ (ko)
• Kan-on: きょ (kyo)
• Kun: うずくまる (uzukumaru, 踞る)

Korean

Hanja

踞 • (geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune–Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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Vietnamese

Han character

踞: Hán Việt readings: cứ
踞: Nôm readings: cứ

1. chữ Hán form of cứ (“squat”).