# 衢

| 衢 | U+8862, &#34914; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8862 |
| ← 衡 [U+8861] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 衣 → [U+8863] |

## Translingual
### Han character

衢 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 竹人月土弓 (HOBGN), four-corner 2122$_1$, composition ⿴行瞿 or ⿲彳瞿亍)

#### Derived characters

* 𡆚 𩇐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1110, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34090
* Dae Jaweon: page 1575, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 852, character 1
* Unihan data for U+8862

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 瞿 | *kʷas, *ɡʷa |
| 衢 | *ɡʷa |
| 氍 | *ɡʷa |
| 癯 | *ɡʷa |
| 蠷 | *ɡʷa |
| 臞 | *ɡʷa, *ɡʷas |
| 欋 | *ɡʷa |
| 鸜 | *ɡʷa |
| 灈 | *ɡʷa |
| 躣 | *ɡʷa |
| 忂 | *ɡʷa |
| 戵 | *ɡʷa |
| 鑺 | *ɡʷa |
| 懼 | *ɡʷas |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷa) : semantic 行 + phonetic 瞿 (OC *kʷas, *ɡʷa).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qú (qu$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): keoi$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kû
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$jiu
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qú
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cyú
*** Wade–Giles: chʻü$^2$
*** Yale: chyú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyu
*** Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: keoi$^4$
*** Yale: kèuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: koey$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kêu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰɵy̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kû
*** Tâi-lô: kû
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kuu
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ku²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ku²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ku¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ku²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ku²³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$jiu
*** MiniDict: jiu$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$jjy
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑy²³/
* Middle Chinese: gju
Rime :
| Character | 衢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 其俱切 |
| Baxter | gju |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɡɨo/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɡio/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɡio/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /guə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ɡio/ |
| Wang Li | /ɡĭu/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /gi̯u/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qú |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | keoi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷa/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 衢 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7139 |
| Phonetic component | 瞿 |
| Rime group | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 衢 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡʷa/ |

### Definitions

衢
* highway
* thoroughfare
* intersection

### Compounds

* 九衢
* 交衢
* 亨衢
* 天衢
* 康衢
* 柳陌花衢
* 禁衢
* 街衢
* 衢室之問／衢室之问
* 衢州 (Qúzhōu)
* 衢肆
* 衢路
* 衢道
* 路衢
* 通衢 (tōngqú)
* 通衢大道
* 通衢廣陌／通衢广陌
* 高步通衢
* 高步雲衢／高步云衢
* 龍躍天衢／龙跃天衢

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* crossroads

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): く (ku)
* Kun: みち (michi)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 衢
* ちまた Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 衢 – see the following entry. :
| 【ちまた】 | [noun] fork in the road [noun] alley [noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議／街谈巷议) Alternative spellings 巷, 岐 |
(This term, 衢, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

衢 • (gu) (hangeul 구, revised gu, McCune–Reischauer ku, Yale kwu)
* highway
* thoroughfare, intersection

## Vietnamese
### Han character

衢: Hán Nôm readings: cù
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