# 簇

| 簇 | U+7C07, &#31751; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C07 |
| ← 簆 [U+7C06] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 簈 → [U+7C08] |

## Translingual
### Han character

簇 (Kangxi radical 118, 竹+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹卜尸大 (HYSK), four-corner 8823$_4$, composition ⿱𥫗族)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 897, character 16
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26437
* Dae Jaweon: page 1323, character 32
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3010, character 10
* Unihan data for U+7C07

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 蔟 | *sʰoːɡs, *sʰoːɡ |
| 嗾 | *sʰoːɡs, *soːʔ, *soːɡs |
| 鷟 | *zroːɡ |
| 鏃 | *ʔsoːɡ |
| 瘯 | *sʰoːɡ |
| 簇 | *sʰoːɡ |
| 族 | *zoːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰoːɡ): semantic 竹 (“bamboo”) + phonetic 族 (OC *zoːɡ)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cù (cu$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): cuk$^1$ / zuk$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhok / chhak / chhiok
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cù
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cù
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻu$^4$
*** Yale: tsù
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuh
*** Palladius: цу (cu)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: cuk$^1$ / zuk$^6$
*** Yale: chūk / juhk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tsuk$^7$ / dzuk$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: cug$^1$ / zug$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰʊk̚⁵/, /t͡sʊk̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhok
*** Tâi-lô: tshok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zhog
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɔk̚⁵/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɔk̚³²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhak
*** Tâi-lô: tshak
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zhag
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰak̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰak̚⁵/
** (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiok
*** Tâi-lô: tshiok
*** Phofsit Daibuun: chiog
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiɔk̚⁵/
* chhok - literary (“classifier (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwan)”);
* chhak - vernacular;
* chhiok - (“classifier (Quanzhou)”).
* Middle Chinese: tshuwk
Rime :
| Character | 簇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 屋 (3) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 千木切 |
| Baxter | tshuwk |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sʰəwk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sʰuk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | cu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | cuk$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sʰoːɡ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 簇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17979 |
| Phonetic component | 族 |
| Rime group | 屋 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 瘯 |
| Old Chinese | /*sʰoːɡ/ |

### Definitions

簇
* to swarm; to crowd together; to cluster; to pile up
* cluster; pile; bouquet
* Classifier for bunched objects: cluster; bundle; bunch
* (mathematics) (algebraic) variety
* completely
    簇新 ― cùxīn ― brand new; completely new

#### See also

* 分配单元

### Compounds

* 一簇 (yīcù)
* 上簇
* 俏簇
* 八抬八簇
* 太簇
* 張弓簇箭 / 张弓簇箭
* 打簇
* 接簇
* 攢簇 / 攒簇
* 晶簇
* 簇合
* 簇帶 / 簇带
* 簇捧 (cùpěng)
* 簇擁 / 簇拥 (cùyōng)
* 簇新 (cùxīn)
* 簇生 (cùshēng)
* 簇盤 / 簇盘
* 簇簇
* 簇集
* 緊簇 / 紧簇
* 繁花錦簇 / 繁花锦簇
* 花團錦簇 / 花团锦簇 (huātuánjǐncù)
* 花攢錦簇 / 花攒锦簇
* 花簇錦攢 / 花簇锦攒
* 雕簇

### Further reading

* “簇”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: す (su)、そく (soku)
* Kan-on: そう (sō)、そく (soku)
* Kan’yō-on: ぞく (zoku)
* Kun: むらがる (muragaru, 簇がる)、やじり (yajiri)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 簇
* ぞく Hyōgai
* kan'yōon
* Alternative spelling
* 蔟

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [d͡zo̞kɯ̟]

#### Noun

簇(ぞく) • (zoku)
* cocoon holders

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 簇
* むら Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 簇 – see the following entry. :
| 【むら】 | [noun] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping [affix] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping Alternative spellings 群, 叢 |
(This term, 簇, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [t͡ɕo̞k̚]
* Phonetic hangul: [족]

### Hanja

Wikisource 簇 • (jok) (hangeul 족, revised jok, McCune–Reischauer chok, Yale cok)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

簇: Hán Nôm readings: thốc, cộp, tậc, thấc, thậc, thộc, thoộc, cốp, cộm, tớc
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