束

束 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木中 (DL), four-corner 5090₆, composition ⿻木口)

• 㑛, 凁, 娕, 悚, 梀, 殐, 涑, 疎, 竦, 綀, 脨, 觫, 誎, 踈, 辣, 鋉 (𨱈), 餗 (𫗧), 駷, 㻋, 䀳
• 剌, 勅, 欶, 敕, 賴 (赖), 辢, 頼, 鵣, 㩽, 𧆄, 𣜋
• 速, 趚
• 𠁃, 𰀟

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 512, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14480
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1158, character 3
• Unihan data for U+675F

Historical forms of the character 束
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogram (指事) – bag tied at both ends (earlier forms were often vertically symmetric) similar to 東.

束

1. to bind; to tie up

   束縛／束缚  ―  shùfù  ―  to bind; to tie up

2. (now in compounds) to control; to restrain

   拘束  ―  jūshù  ―  restraint; inhibited; constraint

3. (now in compounds) end

   結束／结束  ―  jiéshù  ―  end

4. bunch; bundle; bale

   光束  ―  guāngshù  ―  light beam

5. (geometry) pencil (family of geometric objects with a common property)

   平面束  ―  píngmiànshù  ―  pencil of planes

6. Classifier for objects in bunches or bundles, such as bouquets of flowers. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   一束玫瑰  ―  yī shù méiguī  ―  a bouquet of roses

7. a surname

• (to control):

束

1. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to cling to something and climb upwards (of a person)
2. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to bind or tie tightly
3. (Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) to absorb (moisture, etc.)

• (to absorb):

• “束”, 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–

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. bunch
2. to bind
3. to end

• Go-on: そく (soku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: たば (taba, 束, Jōyō); たばねる (tabaneru, 束ねる); つか (tsuka, 束); つかねる (tsukaneru, 束ねる)

• 結(けっ)束(そく) (kessoku): union, unity
• 拘(こう)束(そく) (kōsoku): restriction, restraint
• 収(しゅう)束(そく) (shūsoku): end
• 装(しょう)束(ぞく) (shōzoku): costume, attire
• 束(そく)帯(たい) (sokutai): old ceremonial court dress
• 束(そく)に立(た)つ (soku ni tatsu)
• 束(そく)縛(ばく) (sokubaku): restraint, shackles
• 束(そく)髪(はつ) (sokuhatsu): bundling one's hair, or the hair so bundled; a pompadour-like traditional Japanese hairstyle for women
• 電(でん)束(そく) (densoku): electric flux
• 波(は)束(そく) (hasoku): wave packet
• 約(やく)束(そく) (yakusoku): arrangement, convention
• 束(そく)帯(たい) (sokutai): traditional royal robes

• 把

• (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

束(たば) • (-taba) 

1. counter for bundles

   それは一(ひと)束(たば)十(じゅう)円(えん)の値段(ねだん)でした

   sore wa hitotaba jū en no nedan deshita

   They cost 10 yen a bundle

束(たば) • (taba) 

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

   彼(かれ)は古(ふる)い手(て)紙(がみ)を束(たば)にした

   kare wa furui tegami o taba ni shita

   He bound old letters into a bundle

• 札(さつ)束(たば) (satsutaba): wad of bills
• 束(たば)になって掛(か)かる (taba ni natte kakaru): attack all in a bunch
• 束(たば)ねる (tabaneru): tie up in a bundle
• 花(はな)束(たば) (hanataba): bunch of flowers

• (Tokyo) つか​ [tsùkáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝka̠]

束(つか) • (tsuka) 

1. handbreadth, bundle

• 束(つか)の間(ま) (tsukanoma): brief space of time

• (Tokyo) そ​く [sóꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [so̞kɯ̟ᵝ]

束(そく) • (-soku) 

1. large bundles

束(そく) • (soku) 

1. (mathematics, order theory) lattice

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

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [sʰo̞k̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [속]

Wikisource 束 (eumhun 묶을 속 (mukkeul sok))

1. Hanja form^? of 속 (“bunch; to bind”).

• 약속 (約束, yaksok, “a promise”)

束: Hán Nôm readings: thút, súc, thót, thúc, thóc, thắt

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