# 莒

| 莒 | U+8392, &#33682; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8392 |
| ← 莑 [U+8391] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 莓 → [U+8393] |

## Translingual
### Alternative forms

Due to Han unification, the traditional form containing 呂 and simplified form containing 吕 are encoded under the same code point. Depending on the font installed, this character may appear to be either 莒 or 莒.

### Han character

莒 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7 in traditional Chinese, 艸+6 in simplified Chinese, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese, 9 strokes in simplified Chinese, cangjie input 廿口竹口 (TRHR) or 廿口口 (TRR), four-corner 4460$_6$, composition ⿱艹吕(G) or ⿱艹呂(HTJK))

#### Derived characters

* 𪬠 (Contains ⿱艹呂)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1034, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31046
* Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3204, character 3
* Unihan data for U+8392

## Chinese

* 莒國 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 莒 (Classical)
* Ju (state) (English)
* 莒縣 (Written Standard Chinese)
* 莒縣 (Cantonese)
* Kú-koān (Southern Min)
* Ju County (English)

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 櫚 | *ra |
| 閭 | *ra |
| 吕 | *ɡ·raʔ |
| 侣 | *raʔ |
| 梠 | *raʔ |
| 郘 | *raʔ |
| 絽 | *raʔ |
| 莒 | *klaʔ |
| 筥 | *klaʔ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jǔ (ju$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): geoi$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kú / kír / kí
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyǔ
*** Wade–Giles: chü$^3$
*** Yale: jyǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jeu
*** Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: geoi$^2$
*** Yale: géui
*** Cantonese Pinyin: goey$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gêu$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɵy̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Taipei)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kú
*** Tâi-lô: kú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kuo
*** IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /ku⁵³/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kír
*** Tâi-lô: kír
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kɯ⁵⁵⁴/
** (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kí
*** Tâi-lô: kí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kie
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: kjoX
Rime :
| Character | 莒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 魚 (22) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 居許切 |
| Baxter | kjoX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kɨʌ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kiɔ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kiɔ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɨə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /kiɔ$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭo$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ki̯wo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | geoi$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*k.raʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*klaʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 莒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kjo$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*k.raʔ/ (dialect: *k.r- > > kr-) |
| English | plant; place name |
| 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 | 莒 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8584 |
| Phonetic component | 呂 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 舉 |
| Old Chinese | /*klaʔ/ |

### Definitions

莒
* taro
    Synonym: 芋
* (～國) state of Ju during the Zhou dynasty
* (～縣) Ju County in Shandong province
* a surname

### Compounds

* 在莒
* 毋忘在莒 (wúwàngzàijǔ)
* 莒光 (jǔguāng)
* 莒光樓／莒光楼
* 莒光連隊／莒光连队
* 莒刀
* 莒拳
* 莒縣／莒县

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): きょ (kyo)、こ (ko)
* Kun: いも (imo)

## Korean
### Hanja

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