措

措 U+63AA, 措 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-63AA ← 掩 [U+63A9] CJK Unified Ideographs 掫 → [U+63AB]

Translingual

Han character

措 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手廿日 (QTA), four-corner 5406₁, composition ⿰扌昔)

Derived characters

• 簎 𨝨

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 439, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12286
• Dae Jaweon: page 790, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1891, character 3
• Unihan data for U+63AA

Chinese

simp. and trad.		措
alternative forms		𢵄 錯／错 厝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 措
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (昔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
借	*ʔsjaːɡs, *ʔsjaːɡ
唶	*ʔsjaːɡs
藉	*zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ
躤	*zjaːɡs
蜡	*zraːɡs, *sʰaːɡs
齰	*zraːɡs, *zraːɡ
醋	*sʰaːɡs
錯	*sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
措	*sʰaːɡs
厝	*sʰaːɡs, *sʰaːɡ
逪	*sʰaːɡ
剒	*sʰaːɡ
鵲	*sʰaɡ
碏	*sʰaɡ
踖	*sʰaɡ, *ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
趞	*sʰaɡ
皵	*sʰaɡ, *sʰjaːɡ
舄	*sʰjaːɡ, *sʰaɡ, *sjaːɡ, *sjaːɡ
斮	*ʔsraɡ, *ʔsraːɡ
簎	*zraːwɢ, *sʰraːɡ, *zjaːɡ
諎	*ʔsraːɡ
矠	*sʰreːɡ, *zreːɡ
庴	*ʔsjaːɡ, *zjaːɡ
籍	*zjaːɡ
耤	*zjaːɡ
猎	*zjaːɡ
昔	*sjaːɡ
惜	*sjaːɡ
腊	*sjaːɡ
焟	*sjaːɡ
棤	*sjaːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːɡs) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 昔 (OC *sjaːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cuò (cuo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhu
• Eastern Min (BUC): chó
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhò͘ / chhò

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cuò
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻo⁴
    • Yale: tswò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuoh
    • Palladius: цо (co)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cou³
    • Yale: chou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhu
    • Hakka Romanization System: cu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰu⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhò͘ / chhò
    • Tâi-lô: tshòo / tshò
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhox, zhoix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰɔ²¹/, /t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰɔ⁴¹/, /t͡sʰo⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰɔ²¹/, /t͡sʰo²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰɔ¹¹/, /t͡sʰo¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰɔ²¹/, /t͡sʰɤ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cu³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: tshuH

Rime
Character	措
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	倉故切
Baxter	tshuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰɔH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰoH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	措
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuò
Middle Chinese	‹ tshuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ˁak-s/
English	place (v.)
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	措
Reading #	1/1
No.	13277
Phonetic component	昔
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	厝
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːɡs/

Definitions

措

1. to place; to put in order; to arrange
2. to employ; to administer
3. to collect; to measure
4. to make plans
5. to move; to act; to conduct
6. wording

Compounds

• 不知所措 (bùzhīsuǒcuò)
• 倉皇失措／仓皇失措
• 倉皇無措／仓皇无措
• 因應措施／因应措施
• 失措 (shīcuò)
• 寒酸措大
• 張皇失措／张皇失措
• 彷徨失措
• 徬徨失措
• 惶惶無措／惶惶无措
• 慌忙無措／慌忙无措 (huāngmáng wúcuò)
• 手腳無措／手脚无措
• 手足失措
• 手足無措／手足无措 (shǒuzúwúcuò)
• 措不及防
• 措大
• 措意 (cuòyì)
• 措手 (cuòshǒu)
• 措手不及 (cuòshǒubùjí)
• 措手不迭
• 措支剌
• 措施 (cuòshī)
• 措置 (cuòzhì)
• 措置乖方
• 措置有方
• 措詞／措词 (cuòcí)
• 措辦／措办
• 措辭／措辞 (cuòcí)
• 措顏無地／措颜无地
• 未知所措
• 束手無措／束手无措
• 無措／无措 (wúcuò)
• 窮措大／穷措大
• 籌措／筹措 (chóucuò)
• 罔知所措
• 舉措／举措 (jǔcuò)
• 舉止失措／举止失措
• 舉直措枉／举直措枉
• 莫措手足
• 莫知所措
• 設張舉措／设张举措
• 遣辭措意／遣辞措意
• 靡知所措
• 風措／风措
• 驚惶失措／惊惶失措 (jīnghuáng shīcuò)
• 驚慌失措／惊慌失措 (jīnghuāngshīcuò)

 

Japanese

Kanji

措

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. to put, to place
2. to act, to conduct

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so, Jōyō)
• Kun: おく (oku, 措く)

Korean

Hanja

措 • (jo, chaek) (hangeul 조, 책, revised jo, chaek, McCune–Reischauer cho, ch'aek, Yale co, chayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

措: Hán Nôm readings: thố, số, thá, thó, láp, thò

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