呪

See also: 咒
呪 U+546A, 呪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-546A
← 呩
[U+5469] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 呫 →
[U+546B]

Translingual

Han character

呪 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口口竹山 (RRHU), composition ⿰口兄)

  1. pray for haplessness or curses (upon another)
  2. curse, hex, damn(ing)
  3. spell, enchantment, ensorcellment
  4. incantation, mantra, chant

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 182, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3443
  • Dae Jaweon: page 401, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 601, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+546A

Chinese

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (祝) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
祝 *tjuɡs, *tjuɡ
呪 *tjus
咒 *tjus
柷 *tjuɡ, *tʰjuɡ

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 呪 – see 咒 (“religious incantation or mantra; spell; curse; malediction; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 咒).

Japanese

Kanji
呪

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. charm, curse

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 呪 (MC tsyuwH). Recorded as Middle Korean 츅〮 (chyúk) (Yale: chyuk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 呪 (eumhun 빌 주 (bil ju))

  1. Hanja form? of 주 (“charm; curse”).

Compounds
Compounds

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

呪: Hán Nôm readings: huếnh; chú

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