呪

See also: 咒
呪 U+546A, 呪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-546A
← 呩
[U+5469] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呫 →
[U+546B]

Translingual

Han character

呪 (radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹山 (RRHU), composition ⿰口兄)

  1. pray for haplessness or curses (upon another)
  2. curse, hex, damn(ing)
  3. spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
  4. incantation, mantra, chant

References
  • KangXi: page 182, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3443
  • Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 601, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+546A

Chinese

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祝 *tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪 *tjus
咒 *tjus
柷 *tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Etymology
For pronunciation and definitions of 呪 – see 咒 (“religious incantations or mantras; a curse; etc.”).
(This character, 呪, is a variant form of 咒.)

Japanese

Kanji
呪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. charm, curse

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

呪 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

呪 (huếnh)

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