# 炷

| 炷 | U+70B7, &#28855; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-70B7 |
| ← 炶 [U+70B6] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 炸 → [U+70B8] |

## Translingual
### Han character

炷 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火卜土 (FYG), four-corner 9081$_4$, composition ⿰火主)
* wick of an oil lamp
* to burn (incense, etc.)
* measure word for lit incense sticks

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 669, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18965
* Dae Jaweon: page 1078, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2196, character 13
* Unihan data for U+70B7

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 飳 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 妵 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 黈 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 蘣 | *tʰoːʔ |
| 罜 | *doːɡ, *tjos |
| 拄 | *toʔ |
| 柱 | *toʔ, *doʔ |
| 駐 | *tos |
| 註 | *tos, *tjos |
| 鉒 | *tos |
| 軴 | *tos |
| 住 | *tos, *dos |
| 跓 | *doʔ |
| 嵀 | *doʔ |
| 主 | *tjoʔ |
| 麈 | *tjoʔ |
| 宔 | *tjoʔ |
| 炷 | *tjoʔ, *tjos |
| 注 | *tjos |
| 疰 | *tjos |
| 蛀 | *tjos |
| 霔 | *tjos |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhù (zhu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu$^3$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chù
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhù
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
*** Wade–Giles: chu$^4$
*** Yale: jù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
*** Palladius: чжу (čžu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zyu$^3$
*** Yale: jyu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzy$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ju$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡syː³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chù
*** Tâi-lô: tsù
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zux
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡su¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su²¹/
* Middle Chinese: tsyuX, tsyuH
Rime :
| Character | 炷 | 炷 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 章 (23) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 之庾切 | 之戍切 |
| Baxter | tsyuX | tsyuH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ɕɨo$^X$/ | /t͡ɕɨo$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /cuə̆$^X$/ | /cuə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ | /t͡ɕio$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ɕĭu$^X$/ | /t͡ɕĭu$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡ɕi̯u$^X$/ | /t͡ɕi̯u$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhǔ | zhù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zyu$^2$ | zyu$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*tjoʔ/, /*tjos/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 炷 | 炷 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 17621 | 17626 |
| Phonetic component | 主 | 主 |
| Rime group | 侯 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 主 | 注 |
| Old Chinese | /*tjoʔ/ | /*tjos/ |

### Definitions

炷
* to burn (incense, etc.)
* wick of an oil lamp
* Classifier for lit incense sticks.
    一炷線香／一炷线香 ― yī zhù xiànxiāng ― an incense stick

#### Compounds

* 一炷香
* 炷香 (zhùxiāng)
* 燈炷／灯炷
* 艾炷
* 蕙炷
* 蘭炷／兰炷 (lánzhù)
* 頭炷香／头炷香

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: す (su)
* Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
* Kun: たく (taku, 炷く)、ともす (tomosu, 炷す)、やく (yaku, 炷く)

## Korean
### Hanja

炷 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

炷: Hán Nôm readings: chú, chụ
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