州

See also: 川 and 洲
州 U+5DDE, 州
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DDE
← 川
[U+5DDD] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 巟 →
[U+5DDF]

Translingual

Han character

州 (radical 47, 巛+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈中戈中 (ILIL), four-corner 32000, composition ⿻⿲丿丶丶川(GJKV) or ⿻⿲丶丶丶川(HT))

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 324, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 624, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 46, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5DDE

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 州
variant forms 𠄓

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 州
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (州) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
洲 *tju
州 *tju
喌 *tju, *tjuɡ
酬 *dju
詶 *dju, *djus

Pictogram (象形) – islet in a river.

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職流切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuw/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 州
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhōu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tu/
English islet in stream; province

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 州
Reading # 1/1
No. 17493
Phonetic
component		 州
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 周
Old
Chinese		 /*tju/

Definitions

州

  1. † Alternative form of 洲 (zhōu, “islet in a river”).
  2. (historical, now still used in place names) zhou (a type of historical political divisions of China, usually translated as prefecture or province)
    揚州 / 扬州  ―  Yángzhōu  ―  (historical) Yang Province; (modern) Yangzhou
  3. Short for 自治州 (zìzhìzhōu).
  4. state; canton (of some countries)

See also
  • 省份 (shěngfèn), 省 (shěng, “province”)
  • 縣／县 (xiàn, “county”)

Descendants
  • → Lü: ᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ (tsoew1)
  • → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠣ (jeo)
  • → Mongolian: ᠵᠧᠦ (ǰēü), жүү (žüü)

Compounds
Derived terms from 州

Japanese

Kanji
州

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. State

Readings

Noun

州 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji shū)

  1. state (political entity)

州 (hiragana す, rōmaji su)

  1. sandbank

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

  1. state, province

Vietnamese

Han character

州 (châu, chu)

  1. state, province
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