蹴

蹴 U+8E74, 蹴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E74 ← 蹳 [U+8E73] CJK Unified Ideographs 蹵 → [U+8E75]

Translingual

Han character

蹴 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 口一卜火山 (RMYFU), four-corner 6311₄, composition ⿰𧾷就)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1233, character 36
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37876
• Dae Jaweon: page 1706, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3740, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8E74

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蹴
alternative forms		蹵 蹙 踧

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蹴
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
僦	*ʔsuɡs
就	*zuɡs
鷲	*zuɡs
殧	*zuɡs, *ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ
噈	*ʔsuɡ
蹴	*ʔsuɡ, *sʰuɡ

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cù (cu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cuk¹
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁷tshoq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu⁴
    • Yale: tsù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
    • Palladius: цу (cu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cuk¹
    • Yale: chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: cug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁷tshoq
    • MiniDict: tshoh^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tshoq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰoʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tshjuwk

Rime
Character	蹴
Reading #	1/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	東 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	七宿切
Baxter	tshjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰiuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰiuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰuwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiuk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰuɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蹴
Reading #	2/2
No.	7000
Phonetic component	就
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	鼀
Old Chinese	/*sʰuɡ/

Definitions

蹴

1. (literary) to kick
2. (literary) to tread on; to trample

   • 一簞食，一豆羹，得之則生，弗得則死。嘑爾而與之，行道之人弗受；蹴爾而與之，乞人不屑也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     一箪食，一豆羹，得之则生，弗得则死。呼尔而与之，行道之人弗受；蹴尔而与之，乞人不屑也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Yī dān shí, yī dòu gēng, dé zhī zé shēng, fú dé zé sǐ. Hū ěr ér yǔ zhī, xíng dào zhī rén fú shòu; cù ěr ér yǔ zhī, qǐrén bù xiè yě. [Pinyin]

     A bit of food contained by a bamboo container, a bit of soup in a bowl, if a person gets it then he will live, if he doesn’t receive it then he will die. If you shout in a bad attitude while giving food, pedestrians/ the homeless will not accept; if you trample on the food while giving the food, beggars will not stoop to get the food.

3. Used in 蹴然 (cùrán).
4. Alternative form of 蹙 (cù)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 踢 (“to kick”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		蹴
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		踢
Mandarin	Beijing	踢, 𨂊
	Taiwan	踢
	Yantai (Muping)	踢
	Jinan	踢
	Wanrong	踢
	Xi'an	踢
	Yinchuan	踢
	Wuhan	踢, 啄
	Chengdu	踢, 啄
	Guiyang	啄
	Yangzhou	踢
	Nanjing	踢
	Hefei	踢
	Singapore	踢
Cantonese	Guangzhou	踢
	Hong Kong	踢
	Taishan	踢
	Yangjiang	踢
	Singapore (Guangfu)	踢
Gan	Nanchang	踢
	Lichuan	踢
Hakka	Meixian	踢
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	踢
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	踢
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	踢
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	踢
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	踢
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	踢
Huizhou	Jixi	踢
Jin	Taiyuan	踢
	Xinzhou	踢
Northern Min	Jian'ou	踢
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	踢, 櫼
Southern Min	Xiamen	踢
	Singapore (Hokkien)	踢
	Manila (Hokkien)	踢
	Chaozhou	踢
	Singapore (Teochew)	踢
	Leizhou	蹄
Wu	Shanghai	踢
	Suzhou	踢
	Hangzhou	踢
	Wenzhou	踢
	Jinhua	踢
Xiang	Changsha	踢, 踹
	Loudi	踢
	Shuangfeng	踢

Compounds

• 一蹴
• 一蹴可幾／一蹴可几 (yīcùkějī)
• 一蹴而就 (yīcù'érjiù)
• 一蹴而得
• 刨蹴
• 跼蹴
• 蹴圓／蹴圆
• 蹴然
• 蹴踘 (cùjū)
• 蹴蹴然
• 蹴鞠 (cùjū)

 

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zú, cù (zu², cu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨˊ, ㄘㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zuk¹, cuk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zú
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zú
    • Wade–Giles: tsu²
    • Yale: dzú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzwu
    • Palladius: цзу (czu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu⁴
    • Yale: tsù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
    • Palladius: цу (cu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zuk¹, cuk¹
    • Yale: jūk, chūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzuk⁷, tsuk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: zug¹, cug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʊk̚⁵/, /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsjuwk

Rime
Character	蹴
Reading #	2/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	東 (4)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	子六切
Baxter	tsjuwk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨuk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡siuk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡siuk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡suwk̚/
Li Rong	/t͡siuk̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭuk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si̯uk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zuk1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsuɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	蹴
Reading #	1/2
No.	6999
Phonetic component	就
Rime group	覺
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蹙
Old Chinese	/*ʔsuɡ/

Definitions

蹴

1. Only used in 蹴然 (zúrán).

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiu (jiu⁵／jiu⁰)

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄐㄧㄡ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiu
    • Zhuyin: ˙ㄐㄧㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jio̊u
    • Wade–Giles: chiu⁵
    • Yale: jyou
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .jiou
    • Palladius: цзю (czju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡ʑ̥i̯oʊ̯/

Definitions

蹴

1. Only used in 圪蹴.

References

• “蹴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

蹴

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. kick

Readings

• Go-on: すく (suku)
• Kan-on: しゅく (shuku)^{←しゆく (syuku, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: しゅう (shū, Jōyō)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: ける (keru, 蹴る, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 蹴(しゅう)球(きゅう) (shūkyū, “soccer”)
• 缶(かん)蹴(け)り (kankeri, “kick the can”)
• 蹴(け)出(だ)し (kedashi, “underskirt worn under kimono”)
• 蹴(け)鞠(まり) (kemari, “a traditional Japanese sport”)

Korean

Hanja

蹴 • (chuk) (hangeul 축, revised chuk, McCune–Reischauer ch'uk, Yale chwuk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蹴: Hán Việt readings: xúc
蹴: Nôm readings: xúc

1. chữ Hán form of xúc (“kick, trample”).