Character: 局
Modern (Beijing) reading: jú
Preclassic Old Chinese: gok
Classic Old Chinese: gok
Western Han Chinese: gok
Eastern Han Chinese: gok
Early Postclassic Chinese: gok
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gok
Late Postclassic Chinese: gok
Middle Chinese: göuk
English meaning : to bend, stoop
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бюро, управление; контора, учреждение; участок; 2) лавка; мастерская; заведение; склад; 3) игорный дом, притон; 4) обман; обманывать; 5) часть; частичный; узкий, ограниченный; ограничивать; ограничения; 6) широкая натура, размах; способности; 7) положение, конъюнктура; ситуация; 8) шахматная доска; партия [в шахматы]; 9) банкет, пир
Comments: This is the original meaning of the character, which later came to be rendered by the graph 跼. Starting with Han the character 局 was used for a homonymous word *gok 'action, circumstance; meeting, party, office' (for *g cf. Xiamen kik8, Chaozhou kek8, Fuzhou kuok8). Cf. also Viet. gục 'to bend down'.
Radical: 44
Four-angle index: 4170
Karlgren code: 1214 a
Vietnamese reading: cuộc
