喌

喌 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口口戈中中 (RRILL), four-corner 6632₀, composition ⿱吅州)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 198, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3918
• Dae Jaweon: page 419, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 655, character 3
• Unihan data for U+558C

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tju, *tjuɡ) : semantic 吅 + phonetic 州 (OC *tju).

喌

1. (onomatopoeia) cluck (sound of calling chicken); tsk

   • 婢又呼雞：「喌，喌，喌，喌，王安石來。」群雞俱至。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad.]
     婢又呼鸡：「喌，喌，喌，喌，王安石来。」群鸡俱至。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 1624, Feng Menglong (馮夢龍), Stories to Caution the World (《警世通言》). English translation by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang, 2007.

     Bì yòu hū jī: “Zhōu, zhōu, zhōu, zhōu, Wáng Ānshí lái.” Qún jī jù zhì. [Pinyin]

     Then the maid called out to the chickens, "Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Wang Anshi, come over here!" and the flock of chickens swarmed up to her.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しゅく (shuku); しゅう (shū)

喌 • (ju, juk) (hangeul 주, 죽, revised ju, juk, McCune–Reischauer chu, chuk)

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