# 丶

| 丶 | U+4E36, &#20022; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E36 |
| ← 丵 [U+4E35] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 丷 → [U+4E37] |
| ⼂ | U+2F02, &#12034; KANGXI RADICAL DOT |
| ← ⼁ [U+2F01] | Kangxi Radicals | ⼃ → [U+2F03] |

## Translingual
### Han character

丶 (Kangxi radical 3, 丶+0, 1 stroke, cangjie input 戈 (I) or 難戈 (XI), four-corner 3000$_0$)
* Kangxi radical #3, ⼂.

#### Derived characters

* Appendix:Chinese radical/丶

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 80, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 91
* Dae Jaweon: page 162, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 42, character 8
* Unihan data for U+4E36

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 丶 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
| Transcribed ancient scriptsL14405L14406L14407L14408L14409L14410L14411L14413L14414 ||
| References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script). ||
A small fire on a torch, when used as the original form of 主 (which is unrelated with the right part of 往 < 𢓸); otherwise, it was just a point.
However, in most of the Chinese characters, it can represent many different things: ice (冰), water (汉), minerals (金, 丹), an eye (鸟), grains of sand (小), grains of salt (鹵), kernel of millet used to produce sacrifical wine (鬯), fire (火, 然), a tattoo on face as a form of punishment (黑), air coming out of a speaking mouth (兑), a line over a bifurcated tongue to underline the concept of "speaking" (言) or a line over a chisel to mark prisoners (辛), grass (草), the upper part of a door (户), the horns of a sheep (羊) or a lamb (羔), one horn of a cow or bull (牛, 告), a decoration on top of a flagpole (旅), a footprint pointing upwards (往, 之), the head of a man with a tattoo on his chest (文), the head of a man standing (立), the point of a roof (字, 京, 高), wine coming out of a vessel (酋)...

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zhǔ (zhu$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu$^2$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chú
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chú
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhǔ
*** Wade–Giles: chu$^3$
*** Yale: jǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juu
*** Palladius: чжу (čžu)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zyu$^2$
*** Yale: jyú
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzy$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ju$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡syː³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chú
*** Hakka Romanization System: zu$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: zu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /t͡su³¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chú
*** Tâi-lô: tsú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zuo
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: trjuX
Rime :
| Character | 丶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 知 (9) |
| Final (韻) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 知庾切 |
| Baxter | trjuX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʈɨo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈio$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȶio$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈuə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ȶio$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ȶĭu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȶi̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zhǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zyu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*toʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 丶 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17601 |
| Phonetic component | 丶 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 拄 |
| Old Chinese | /*toʔ/ |

### Definitions

丶
* An ancient punctuation mark.
* Alternative form of 主

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* tick or dot radical No. 3 (てん, ten)
* dot

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ちゅう (chū)
* Kun: てん (ten)

#### Synonyms

* 点

#### Usage notes

* Appears only as a radical.

## Korean
### Hanja

丶 (eumhun 점 주 (jeom ju))
* comma

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

丶: Hán Nôm readings: chủ
* chữ Hán form of chủ (“Kangxi radical 3—‘dot’”).

### References

* Nom Foundation