Character: 鞠
Modern (Beijing) reading: jū
Preclassic Old Chinese: kuk
Classic Old Chinese: kuk
Western Han Chinese: kǝuk
Eastern Han Chinese: kǝuk
Early Postclassic Chinese: kɨuk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kuk
Late Postclassic Chinese: kuk
Middle Chinese: kük
English meaning : be exhausted, exhaustive
Russian meaning[s]: 1) сгибать, гнуть; кланяться; 2) футбольный мяч; футбол; 3) выкармливать, воспитывать, выращивать; 4) расследовать, разбирать; 5) молодой; малолетний; 6) Цзюй (фамилия)
Comments: Also read *guk, MC gük (FQ 渠竹) id.; used also for a homonymous *kuk / *guk 'to nourish'.
Radical: 177
Four-angle index: 4354
Karlgren code: 1017 h
Shijing occurrences: 35.5_
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,bigchina-karlgren,bigchina-shijing,